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    The one I am using to register is my Windows 7 Professional x64 one.
       #380

    I figured a way how to change the selection order! I used NTLite for this, so you have to export your individial operating system's install.wim file out to another install.wim file and appending to it, not overriding it and order it that way; the first one starts at the top, the second one below the first one, the third one below the second one and so on and so forth! This will take a while if you have a universal install media, so for me would take 19 tries to specifically order the operating system in whatever order you want them to be seen as on the setup screen.

    I had to do this when I screwed up an batch update, so had to deleted the corrupted operating system image in the wim file, make a new wim file with the imagex /export commands I copied and edited out so I would only pick that specific corrupted operating system image that needed replacing, and then used NTLite to export and re-order using the new wim file, since I don't see a way to re-order he current one with the replacement operating system image sitting all the way down at the bottom of the selection list...

    Apparently integrating KB5005392 update seems touchy for some reason.... and I'm guessing this error: Wrong architecture (x86): KB2533552 - Servicing Stack Update (B:\All windows 7 versions and 2k8 on one disc or usb\Win7+2k8AllSP1x64Base\sources\$OEM$\$$\Setup\Updates\Windows6.1-KB2533552-x86.cab) is because I have both 32-bit and 64-bit updates which presumesly can't be preintegrated and must be installed once the OS is installed first....

    And holy crap the install media is now almost 9GB - 8.74 GB (9,390,724,272 bytes) after almost finishing integrating all updates to all versions of windows 7 and 2008 R2! And I'm not sure if it matters, but I've also done:
    Code:
    Copied over adprep from support folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over samples from support folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over license from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows 7 ENTERPRISE.clg from sources folder from enterprise (There is one for both 32-bit and 64-bit)
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTER.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTERCORE.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISE.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISECORE.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARD.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARDCORE.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEB.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Copied over install_Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEBCORE.clg from sources folder from 2k8 r2
    Edited  product.ini in sources folder so it combines the contents of both win7,  win7 enterprise and 2k8; 32-bit version has STARTER line at the bottom  which the 64-bit one doesn't, otherwise the two files are identical.
    Which Hoopstar didn't mention in his instruction manual, but I did it just in case the setup needed these files since there were versions of these on the non-enterprise and 2008 R2 SP1 ISOs or in case anyone else wants to know what I did different to my universal copy.

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    Question about the recovery and repair environment; I noticed when I load the images, the individual OSs have recovery environment, would I be able to export that out and then put it somewhere on the install wim or boot wim or that won't work? In this case would have two recovery environments - one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit.

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-recovery-environment-inside-os-image.png
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  2. Posts : 16,163
    7 X64
       #381

    Question about the recovery and repair environment; I noticed when I load the images, the individual OSs have recovery environment, would I be able to export that out and then put it somewhere on the install wim or boot wim or that won't work? In this case would have two recovery environments - one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit.
    Not clear what you are asking.

    You said you had decided to have separate media for each bit version.

    Why would you want to extract winre.wim? The exact same system recovery options are available in boot.wim.

    You might want to add updates/drivers to winre.wim. It would be quite laborious doing one at a time, which is why I use the upgrade method in my little updater.

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  3. Posts : 61
    The one I am using to register is my Windows 7 Professional x64 one.
       #382

    SIW2 said:
    You said you had decided to have separate media for each bit version.
    Thats because I couldnt find a way to have both on one disc and then realised, after noticing each image having their own winre.wim, "What if I could just drag any one of those 32-bit recovery environments from the 32-bit images (that I can either use from my 32-bit base or the 64-bit base) and put it in the same group where boot.wim is, along with winpe and winsetup images are?" I wasn't sure if that would work which is why I asked first before doing it...

    SIW2 said:
    Why would you want to extract winre.wim? The exact same system recovery options are available in boot.wim.
    How else are you gonna get 32-bit recovery environment on a 64-bit base install/boot wim?

    SIW2 said:
    You might want to add updates/drivers to winre.wim. It would be quite laborious doing one at a time, which is why I use the upgrade method in my little updater.
    Why do I need to add it to that as well? Thought just adding them to install wim for each image was enough....
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  4. Posts : 16,163
    7 X64
       #383

    How else are you gonna get 32-bit recovery environment on a 64-bit base install/boot wim?
    During the normal setup routine, winre.wim is deployed from windows\system32\recovery to a hidden folder on the disk.

    It can be booted by autofailover or using the f8 key to access the system recovery options.

    It should be obvious that if the machine requires certain drivers, they should be in winre.wim as well.

    Boot.wim also has the exact same recovery options, which can be accessed by selecting "Repair your computer" here:

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-repair_option.jpg

    If you want be able to boot to 32 bit recovery environment directly from your 64 bit installation media, you could add either 32 bit boot.wim or 32 bit winre.wim to the sources folder and add the appropriate bcd entry. But that would only function using bios boot, not efi boot. If you are making separate 32 bit installation media, there doesnt seem to be any point.
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  5. Posts : 61
    The one I am using to register is my Windows 7 Professional x64 one.
       #384

    SIW2 said:
    During the normal setup routine, winre.wim is deployed from windows\system32\recovery to a hidden folder on the disk.

    It can be booted by autofailover or using the f8 key to access the system recovery options.

    It should be obvious that if the machine requires certain drivers, they should be in winre.wim as well.

    Boot.wim also has the exact same recovery options, which can be accessed by selecting "Repair your computer" here:

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-repair_option.jpg

    If you want be able to boot to 32 bit recovery environment directly from your 64 bit installation media, you could add either 32 bit boot.wim or 32 bit winre.wim to the sources folder and add the appropriate bcd entry. But that would only function using bios boot, not efi boot. If you are making separate 32 bit installation media, there doesnt seem to be any point.
    I see, so I should also be integrating updates and drivers into winre.wim as well as boot.wim (pesumeably the setup image or both the pe and setup?).

    But that would only function using bios boot, not efi boot.
    And when the recovery or repair environment asks to insert the install media, this is where that matters or is that something completely different? Coz I remember making AIO (without enterprise or server 2008 r2), somehow borked that install after using it and it would only into recovery/repair mode and requests that I give it the repair/recovery disc for it to fix itself but none of the discs I gave it worked...including the same AIO disc I used to install it with. So what I did was just wipe the whole install and reinstall a new and problem solved(after moving files and folders that I wanted to recover from the hard drive using linux mate). Never did figure out why my AIO didnt work as the recovery disc it needed...

    SIW2 said:
    It is patched so you can use x64 recovery environment.

    Easiest to let whd do it for you. whd

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    You can then manually add Boot\bootx64.efi to the efi folder

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    Maybe I should start all over and use your Windows Hotfix Downloader to create my win7/2008 AIO ISO which also supposedly adds a 64-bit recovery and repair mode (dunno if the same mode also works for 2008 assuming its recovery and repair mode is based on the windows 7 version) and then use your little updater to integrate all updates and universal drivers for me automatically and then I get can put my feet up on a chair and relax? Oh wait... I remember you saying something that your little updater won't work on a special AIO such as mine since it's multibit (32bit + 64bit)?
    SIW2 said:
    There is an updater on this site, however it is not for multi bit version.
    Oh you did too! God damnit, well back to the drawing board... If only I could read russian, I'd try out that other multibit updater you gave me, since the english translated version is borked, according to your testings.
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  6. Posts : 16,163
    7 X64
       #385

    You could try the following:

    update the 64 (x64) bit media and create an iso.

    Then update the 32 (x86) bit media and create an iso.

    Then you browse to those already updated iso files with WHD to create the aio

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-whd5.jpg
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  7. Posts : 61
    The one I am using to register is my Windows 7 Professional x64 one.
       #386

    Your little updater seems to be crash prone around here:
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-crash-once.png
    As soon as I press enter, BOOM CRASH! But only sometimes though... just to let you know....

    Otherwise there's no more crashes after that! I've also noticed, via NTLite, it has renamed the names and description for all images aside from the first one it touches:
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-looks-like-your-editor-re-edited-description-names-images-after-first-one.....png


    ....It looks like it did the same to my 64-bit and override every single image (first image is original, 2nd is after running your little updater):
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-capture.png
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-capture1.png

    Did a fresh run and it made every single install the first image which is Home Basic...and let's not forget this error when it gets to image 4 to 13:
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-error-50.png
    ...and why is it trying to upgrade windows? I thought this was an updating process not an upgrade process?

    ...are you sure your little updater is okay with my universal windows 7 and 2008 r2 install media...? My 32-bit one went without hiccups(ok well maybe the name and description changes that looked like they were shifted, name to description and whatever value as the new name which I all had to rename back and redescibed back) but 64-bit......ooooh....

    - - - Updated - - -

    Ok so maybe it might work if I did it one by one....except how do I scroll up and down here? I've increased the buffer and window size and they didn't allow me to go up and down to see the others that are cut off here:
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-no-way-scroll-up.png
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  8. Posts : 16,163
    7 X64
       #387

    ...and why is it trying to upgrade windows?
    Because it more efficient to integrate the updates into image 1 then upgrade image 1 to the other editions.

    The consumer editions can be upgraded thus:

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-upgrade-image.jpg

    The mess you made is because you added other images to the wim.

    Add a couple of colons to comment out line 4

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-mode.jpg
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  9. Posts : 61
    The one I am using to register is my Windows 7 Professional x64 one.
       #388

    SIW2 said:
    Because it more efficient to integrate the updates into image 1 then upgrade image 1 to the other editions.

    The consumer editions can be upgraded thus:

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-upgrade-image.jpg

    The mess you made is because you added other images to the wim.
    You told me it works for all images as long as there isnt a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit which is what I fixed (I took out 32-bit windows 7 images from 64-bit wim and 64-bit windows 7 from 32-bit wim) but it still broke... Unless you meant to say that it doesn't work on a multi-image wim that isn't windows 7(that means I would have to seperate out server 2008 r2 from the wim file and do that seperately and then recombine them back afterwards) and not that it doesn't work on multibit wim? Or both??!

    SIW2 said:
    Add a couple of colons to comment out line 4

    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-mode.jpg
    And what does this do?

    Also I found another crash area:
    Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create-crash-area2.png
    Sometimes it would crash here.

    Also also, another request, since I'm doing this one by one manually (or else your little updater will turn all other images upside down...) if the program could restart itself and then do the next one like if I had restarted it to do the next image.
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  10. Posts : 16,163
    7 X64
       #389

    Crashes are a problem at your end . I dont know waht you are doing to cause that.
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