Editing a former image
Hi all,
Sorry if there is not where I should post this.
The company I am currently working for hired a 3rd party vendor to do all the imaging for a short while.
They are using WinPE with ImageX and all seems to be working fine.
However I have never worked with either and I am now in charge of handling all the imaging. We owe the vendor a great sum of $$, so asking for any help with it is null.
I tried to learn how to do this all from scratch, but found it very indepth and a bit confusing.
From what I have read you can easily update the image and repackage it to push it out.
My question is how do I go about this? The image is a bit out dated and I want to do some other tweaks to it as well.
Can someone please point me in the right direction and remember I have never used either programs, so please explain in detail.
Thanks
Sorry if there is not where I should post this.
The company I am currently working for hired a 3rd party vendor to do all the imaging for a short while.
They are using WinPE with ImageX and all seems to be working fine.
However I have never worked with either and I am now in charge of handling all the imaging. We owe the vendor a great sum of $$, so asking for any help with it is null.
I tried to learn how to do this all from scratch, but found it very indepth and a bit confusing.
From what I have read you can easily update the image and repackage it to push it out.
My question is how do I go about this? The image is a bit out dated and I want to do some other tweaks to it as well.
Can someone please point me in the right direction and remember I have never used either programs, so please explain in detail.
Thanks
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Posted by:
ashmite
15 years ago
I've successfully edited an older image just this past week. The image was in PE 2005 (the previous version).
I copied the CD to a folder on my C: drive called WinPE.
I made the change that I needed. I added a new driver and copied a new Ghost32.exe
I then when to the original PE folder and ran the command to generate a new image from the old source.
[blockquote]
oscdimg -blocation -n sourceroot image_file
[/blockquote]
This creates an ISO image that you can burn to CD
Do you have the original PE source? Inside should be a Help file that shows how to do it very easily.
--Joel
I copied the CD to a folder on my C: drive called WinPE.
I made the change that I needed. I added a new driver and copied a new Ghost32.exe
I then when to the original PE folder and ran the command to generate a new image from the old source.
[blockquote]
oscdimg -blocation -n sourceroot image_file
[/blockquote]
This creates an ISO image that you can burn to CD
Do you have the original PE source? Inside should be a Help file that shows how to do it very easily.
--Joel
Posted by:
michaelnowell
15 years ago
Install the WAIK (Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit) and take a look in the WinPE.chm.
It will have everything in here that you'll need for Building/Editing/Booting a PE image and a bunch of thing about ImageX.
Good luck.
It will have everything in here that you'll need for Building/Editing/Booting a PE image and a bunch of thing about ImageX.
Good luck.
Posted by:
ssharkey
15 years ago
Hi Michael,
Can you tell me exactly how I go about do this?
So far I have installed WAIK, but I do not know where the WinPE.chm is.
Sorry if I sound like such a noob, but that is because I am.
Thanks
Can you tell me exactly how I go about do this?
So far I have installed WAIK, but I do not know where the WinPE.chm is.
Sorry if I sound like such a noob, but that is because I am.
Thanks
Posted by:
ssharkey
15 years ago
Nevermind I figured it out.
I am sure I will have other questions to come.
Thanks for your help thus far.
I am sure I will have other questions to come.
Thanks for your help thus far.
Posted by:
michaelnowell
15 years ago
Depending on where you installed the WAIK to on your PC (lets assume its in C:\Program Files) the winpe.chm here..... "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Docs\CHMs\WinPE.chm"
Take the time so read through it and you should be up to speed in a day. Remember that if you are using WinPE 2, then it's running a scaled down version of Vista. So if you need to add any additional drivers, make sure they are the vista drivers otherwise they won't work.
Good luck.
Take the time so read through it and you should be up to speed in a day. Remember that if you are using WinPE 2, then it's running a scaled down version of Vista. So if you need to add any additional drivers, make sure they are the vista drivers otherwise they won't work.
Good luck.
Posted by:
ssharkey
15 years ago
I have tried to follow the instructions, but I can not seem to open the install.wim file off the vista disc. I have tried 2 different discs and the same result.
I am not sure if this matters(I have not read ahead), but I am looking to set up an XP image. Should I still be trying to open the install.wim file? I did not find that file on the XP disc so I am thinking I do.
I am not sure if this matters(I have not read ahead), but I am looking to set up an XP image. Should I still be trying to open the install.wim file? I did not find that file on the XP disc so I am thinking I do.
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