Converting install.wim to VHD! Please Help!

[KaneTraiN]

Hi there,

I was just wondering if someone would be nice enough to run me through on how to do this as I've tried many times and still stuck.

I have WAIK installed and VIM2VHD.wsf but don't fully know how to get the install.wim file converted to VHD to then mount onto another drive.

I've tried to do this in the CMD prompt:
cscript wim2vhd.wsf
d:\sources\install.wim /SKU:HomePremium

After that I press enter and it comes up with the install.wim file windows will then ask me what to browse it with. Unsure of what I'm doing wrong.



Can someone please help!

Note: Can't use any other software other then WAIK and WIM2VHD.

 

[cluberti]

ALL OF THESE COMMANDS SHOULD BE RUN FROM AN ELEVATED CMD PROMPT.

The command syntax is:

wim2vhd.wsf /wim:D:\sources\install.wim /SKU:HomePremium /vhd:C:\temp\Win7HomePremiumSP1.vhd /disktype:Dynamic /signdisk:true

Technically this VHD is meant to be used as the boot volume of a virtual machine in Hyper-V or VirtualPC, but you can "attach" (aka mount) a VHD to a drive letter in Windows 7 with a few diskpart commands:

diskpart
select vdisk file=C:\temp\Win7HomePremiumSP1.vhd
attach vdisk
assign letter=V

You can do it with the disk management console, but I'm a command-line guy and it's just faster to type a few commands than click about in the UI, at least in my opinion. Detaching a VHD is just as easy:

diskpart
select vdisk file=C:\temp\Win7HomePremiumSP1.vhd
detach vdisk