Windows 7 Deployment Tools: Preparing an Image Using Sysprep ImageX

[stevef1961]

the first instruction tells us to go to c:\windows\system32 and locate sysprep. It's not there...

[roadslide]

@stevef1961 its a folder with the app inside

[nitro300]

This video helped me out a lot. Now i can transfer my os to my new Computer.

[fooey88]

Great info. thx

[ihypq]

Sweet video, thanks!

One thing I've learned is to do this from a VM. Got this idea from SmartDeploy Enterprise, which encourages you to do it that way. I guess there's fewer drivers to worry about in a VM.

[dogwood523]

Hi Bizhacks, I did a (sysprep) on  my Dell AMD64 as an experiment...It went great!

One small problem though whenever I reboot or start the system it says it is preparing my desktop foe first use! Any way to stop that from happening?

[Notavailableatall]

@dogwood523- Thanks guys



[YoungBud03]

i suggest you Do SYSPREP and enter in Audit mode and delete the use profile, beacuse when you do the OOBE next time you log in you wil have 2 User accounts

[Notavailableatall]

@YoungBud03 That should resolve my problem Thanks I'll let you know...how it goes.

[steinmannchase1]

where can i get sysprep and imagex. i cant seem to find a site to downlaod them from.



[RightDeadFred24]

@steinmannchase1

you need to download the Windows Automated Installation Toolkit ( or WAIK) from Microsoft. It will have all of these tools and more in the download.

[RGorgory]

hello. Few questions:

1) What do i do with that .wim image???

2) how do i restore it on another computer?

3) Does this take the System Information Partition?

[ryanslayer]

@RGorgory you would name it Install.wim and replace the Install.wim on the windows 7 dvd in /sources with the one you just made. then you would install windows 7 from that image

[Notavailableatall]

@ryanslayer Thanks Guys for the help I'll try it!

[pongo4life]

is it important to check generalize field, why?

[Xuma]

@pongo4life Because if strips the win image of hardware specific drivers and items so you can put it on any machine. You should check generalize, even if you're going to put it on the same machine because it also clears the SID number that is in the operating system image.