Anyways to convert WIM to ISO

Hi Guys

Right, ive got a predicament.....

Hard Drive is knackered, however the partition (E RECOVERY) section is visible. On the partition is the recovery.wim file.

How is the best way to recover to a new hard drive with my OS?

I have a windows vista installation file but it doesnt come with all the dell drivers, dell applications and the serial key it says is invalid (From an old Acer machine).

So I then thought about recovering from win using command prompt in repair windows tool.......

The installation is now on the hard drive but I get a NTDLR is missing error message.

Im struggling to get this up and running and wondered whats the best way? Can I convert the wim file to a bootable installation ISO?

Any help in advance I really would appreciate!!

Jon

Hi JR,

Yes there is a way of doing that, as long as the HD containing the wim is functioning .

Got to go now - will have a look at it later tonight.

Yeah, I can get to the partition for Recovery fine.........the actual C:\ is chaffing shageroooood!! When plugging into another laptop it asks if I want to format it

So ive took a backup copy of the E:\ on an external drive just in case.

You shouldn't need to make an iso.

I always install directly from a wim.

If you have an install.wim - might be called factory.wim or something similar , depending on the oem - you should be fine to use that.

If you have access to a working windows 7 machine, I can post something up that will make a little boot disc for you.

Boot that up, start the included nt6 installer - point it at the wim, tell it where you want it to install to - it does the rest.