{"id":1078,"date":"2014-04-12T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:09:03","slug":"windows-8-1-and-wimboot-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 update 1 and Wimboot made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2014, MS has updated Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Update 1. (buildlab\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">6.3.9600.17031 and up).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One feature which was not very much marketed was the Windows Image File Boot also named Wimboot.<br \/>\nYou can read more <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn594399.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>on MS Web site.<\/p>\n<p>In short, here is what MS says :<br \/>\n<em>Windows image file boot (WIMBoot) lets you set up a PC so that it runs directly from a compressed Windows image file (WIM file).<br \/>\nWIMBoot can significantly reduce the amount of space used by Windows files. This helps you provide more free space to users, and helps you manufacture Windows on PCs with smaller drives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So lets see how we can use this new feature :<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ll assume you have already installed your Windows 8.1 (You can download an evaluation version <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/evalcenter\/hh699156.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>1-<strong>Lets make a WINPE<\/strong> out of the Windows 8.1 update 1 iso\/dvd (I use <a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.pro\/topic\/18744-quickpe4\/\" target=\"_blank\">QuickPE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>2-<strong>Boot onto this Winpe<\/strong> (I use <a href=\"http:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">rufus<\/a> to \u00ab\u00a0burn\u00a0\u00bb the winpe iso onto USB).<\/p>\n<p>3-<strong>Capture the installation<\/strong> : <em>dism \/capture-image \/imagefile:e:\\install.Wim \/capturedir:c:\\ \/name:install \/wimboot<\/em><br \/>\nNote here : e:\\ is a second partition on my hard drive<\/p>\n<p>4-<strong>Format C drive<\/strong> (so that we start from a fresh drive)<\/p>\n<p>5-<strong>Apply our wim file<\/strong> (from step 3) to my C drive : <em>dism \/apply-image \/imagefile:e:\\install.Wim \/index:1 \/applydir:c:\\ \/wimboot<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note : after step 5, I had to do a bcdboot X:\\windows \/s X:\\ where X is the partition where you just applied your WIM file.<br \/>\nThis applies only if you have one unique boot &amp; system partition which is nowadays rarely the case as Windows always created a hidden\/reserved partition for the boot files.<\/p>\n<p>And voila, you should end up with a C drive occupied by only 3GB (when it was about 20GB minimum before step 1).<\/p>\n<p>This should work on X86 or X64 (tested), with a UEFI or MBR (tested) partition, with SSD drive or standard drive (not tested).<\/p>\n<p>Here below a picture showing my final \/ wimboot setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wimboot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wimboot-300x187.png\" alt=\"wimboot\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wimboot-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wimboot-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wimboot.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2014, MS has updated Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Update 1. (buildlab\u00a06.3.9600.17031 and up). One feature which was not very much marketed was the Windows Image File Boot also named Wimboot. You can read more here on MS Web site. In short, here is what MS says : Windows image file boot (WIMBoot) <a href='https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1078' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot","category-install-windows","category-16-id","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}