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Create ISO from Current running system
- Thread starter lbd1277
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NTLite cannot capture a live system image, but it can be done by DISM. For best results, you first boot into WinPE (with no unattended file) or Windows Recovery, so your live Windows isn't running (quiet).
1. Open a CMD window from WinPE, with Shift-F10. Run DISM to capture the mounted C: volume.
2. Restart normal Windows. Move your captured install.wim to your ISO folder's \sources folder, and overwrite the existing file.
1. Open a CMD window from WinPE, with Shift-F10. Run DISM to capture the mounted C: volume.
Code:
DISM /Capture-Image /ImageFile:"C:\path\to\install.wim" /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:"My Windows"2. Restart normal Windows. Move your captured install.wim to your ISO folder's \sources folder, and overwrite the existing file.
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does this method ensures all settings and customizations are preserved ?NTLite cannot capture a live system image, but it can be done by DISM. For best results, you first boot into WinPE (with no unattended file) or Windows Recovery, so your live Windows isn't running (quiet).
1. Open a CMD window from WinPE, with Shift-F10. Run DISM to capture the mounted C: volume.
Code:DISM /Capture-Image /ImageFile:"C:\path\to\install.wim" /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:"My Windows"
2. Restart normal Windows. Move your captured install.wim to your ISO folder's \sources folder, and overwrite the existing file.
Yes. But it's only useful if you want to re-install Windows exactly as it was captured.
More experienced users will use the sysprep method, where you reboot into Windows and allow it to generalize the image (remove loaded drivers, user profiles). This makes the captured image more generic for installation on a different PC.
I should back up, and maybe answer this question the way it was intended:
For licensed NTLite users, you can load the live Windows image and export a preset which can be applied to a clean ISO (of the same release) to recreate what you did before in NTLite. It won't capture any customizations that NTLite doesn't do on it's own, like many outside reg tweaks.
Preset -> Save / Extract current image state
First load the clean image, then load this extracted preset. Now save the current session back to the preset. This will "invert" the preset so you can use on new ISO's.
More experienced users will use the sysprep method, where you reboot into Windows and allow it to generalize the image (remove loaded drivers, user profiles). This makes the captured image more generic for installation on a different PC.
I should back up, and maybe answer this question the way it was intended:
For licensed NTLite users, you can load the live Windows image and export a preset which can be applied to a clean ISO (of the same release) to recreate what you did before in NTLite. It won't capture any customizations that NTLite doesn't do on it's own, like many outside reg tweaks.
Preset -> Save / Extract current image state
First load the clean image, then load this extracted preset. Now save the current session back to the preset. This will "invert" the preset so you can use on new ISO's.