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Captured .wim using imagex - 8GB in size?
Hi,
I am looking for some assistance please with regards to the size of my .wim file created using imagex.
I have today build a new image for my company's hardware and captured the image using imagex and saved it onto the c:\ drive of the machine I captured.
After sysprep'ing my machine, I booted into the Winpe enviroment and ran the cmd "imagex /capture d:\ d:\install.wim "New image"" which would save the install.wim file onto the d:\ drive. (d:\ is the hdd, c:\ was the system reserve)
This took around 30 mins to successfully complete and when booting up the machine again and logging on etc, I checked the wim file had been created on the root of c:\ and found it be around 8GB in size.
My plan was to capture the install.wim and replace the install.wim file on my bootable windows 7 usb stick. However as this is over 8GB it will not fit on my 4GB usb stick.
My question is a) have I captured this correctly and expect this to be the normal size and b) if so, can this file be reduced in size able to fit on my win 7 usb stick, therefore making it easier to image new computers.
thanks in advance.
regards,
James