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imagex help? WIM?

I understand the basic concept of imagex and wim files. It's basically a capture of a file system, so it can be used on multiple hardware architectures.

The problem is, I have no idea how to utilize the WIM file.

I was given a WIM file, which was created by someone else on the IT staff offsite. It's suppose to be a Windows 7. I was wondering how does one utilize it to put the image on another machine?

Do I install windows 7 first, then put this image over it? Or does this image have windows 7? Again I'm quite new to this. Any step by step help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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Thanks! Knowing that I can do it form a network share helped a lot. Because I was running into issues with my file being more than 4gb on my fat32 USB that it forces me to use.

I actually ended up being able to create a image and share it out using the two below guides. Doing it via network share helped a lot.

Basically I just created the image and posted it on the share drive. I then created a bare Windows PE Bootable CD.

I popped into the machine I wanted the image on, and ran Windows PE.

Followed the instructions to format the HD

Mounted the folder (I made mine Y:) as a mapped drive (\\share\filename.wim) type in domain/username & pass when asked

Navigate to the CD drive (usually E:)

Type in: imagex /apply y:\filename.wim 1 c:

Restarted and it worked!


http://www.danscourses.com/Windows-7/how-to-create-a-wim-system-image-file-with-windowsaik-and-windowspe.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722406(v=ws.10).aspx