{"id":2643,"date":"2024-02-09T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2024-02-09T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T06:23:14","slug":"software-to-create-windows-install-disks-from-existing-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2024\/02\/09\/software-to-create-windows-install-disks-from-existing-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Software to create Windows install disks from existing setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is about using software to take an existing Windows operating system (10 and 11) and creating an install disk to do a fresh install of the installation on other machines.<\/p>\n<p>Convert the existing OS to a VHD using <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/disk2vhd\">https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/disk2vhd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After VHD is created you can load it into VirtualBox and make changes. Then\u00a0 recreate a VHD while in VirtualBox. Convert the VHD to .wim, then perhaps install .wim to .esd if necessary, create an install USB from a current Windows ISO using RUFUS, then replace the .wim or .esd file with the one from the VHD you edited.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. Yet to be tested fully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/72031-create-windows-10-iso-image-existing-installation.html\">https:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/72031-create-windows-10-iso-image-existing-installation.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Script to create wim file in powershell<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here is a simple powershell script to convert VHD file to WIM file<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><code>#set the VHD mount folder\n$Mount=\"c:\\mount\"\n#create a folder c:\\mount\nMkdir $Mount\n\n#mount the c:\\temp\\spiderip.vhd to $Mount folder\n\nMount-WindowsImage -ImagePath \"c:\\temp\\spiderip.vhd\" -Path \"$Mount\" -Index 1\n#Create new Wim image to c:\\temp\\spiderip.wim folder\n\nNew-WindowsImage -CapturePath \"$Mount\" -Name \"spiderip image\" -ImagePath \"c:\\temp\\spiderip.wim\" -Description \"spiderip image\" -Verify\n#dismount  the $Mount folder\nDismount-WindowsImage -Path \"$Mount\" -Discard<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Convert from .wim to .esd (my win10 install disk uses .esd and when converting vhd to wim I need to change it).<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">dism \/export-image \/sourceimagefile:&lt;file location&gt;:\\install.wim \/sourceindex:&lt;1,2,3,4&gt; \/destinationimagefile:&lt;output location&gt;:\\install.esd \/compress:recovery<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DISM++ has tool to create a wim image (to replace the install iso one). Just a note.<\/p>\n<p>DISM++ free software, but now 5 years old so not so much<br \/>\nVideo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2hEde5WuCSY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2hEde5WuCSY<\/a><br \/>\nSite to download: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Chuyu-Team\/Dism-Multi-language\">https:\/\/github.com\/Chuyu-Team\/Dism-Multi-language<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NT Lite, paid software<br \/>\nVideo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLCWtC6UYrM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLCWtC6UYrM<\/a><br \/>\nVideo makers website on NT Lite: <a href=\"https:\/\/christitus.com\/ntlite-guide\/\">https:\/\/christitus.com\/ntlite-guide\/<\/a><br \/>\nVideo, also on NT Lite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_gMJNQ3yWNE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_gMJNQ3yWNE<\/a><br \/>\nSite for download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntlite.com\">https:\/\/www.ntlite.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is about using software to take an existing Windows operating system (10 and 11) and creating an install disk to do a fresh install of the installation on other machines. Convert the existing OS to a VHD using https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/disk2vhd After VHD is created you can load it into VirtualBox and make changes. Then\u00a0 recreate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}