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Windows 8.1 WIMBOOT premade files and easy guide

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Hello,

i was working on wimboot for awhile to get my miniPC running well as it only had a 16gb eMMC storage

please download the following premade files
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=930D91D3418195D8!616&authkey=!AFB_ojTXRrpS9dk&ithint=file%2czip

Windows PE iso has the windows updates and winpe 5.1 already to go

PREPARING WINPE USB

  1. Open Rufus bootable USB creator
  2. select your usb drive (topbox)
  3. next to make bootable click the choose ISO button
  4. select WinPE5.1 Wimboot ready

PREPARING MAIN HDD/SSD/eMMC

  1. bootup using winPE USB. when loaded you will only see a cmd/terminal window
    1.5 the following are commands to type into the CMD box
  2. DISKPART
  3. list disk
  4. select disk 0
  5. clean
  6. convert gpt
  7. create partition efi size=100
  8. format quick fs=fat32 label="system"
  9. create partition msr size=128
  10. create partition primary
  11. shrink minimum=3000
  12. format quick fs=ntfs label="windows"
  13. assign letter=c
  14. create partition primary
  15. format quick fs=ntfs label="images"
  16. assign letter=m
  17. set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
  18. gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
  19. list volume
  20. exit

your hdd is now partitioned for Wimboot

PREPARING THE DIRECTORIES ON THE VOLUMES

  1. MD "M:\Windows Images\
  2. copy install.wim from the downloaded folder too M:\Windows Images\
  3. MD C:\recycler\scratch
  4. set wim_skip_wimboot_check=1
  5. DISM /apply-image /imagefile:"M:\windows images\install.wim" /applydir:C: /index:1 /WIMBoot /Scratchdir:C:\recycler\scratch
  6. C:\windows\system32\bcdboot c:\windows
  7. MD M:\recovery\windowsRE
  8. copy winre.wim from downloaded dir using xcopy
    xcopy E:\winre.wim M:\recovery\windowsre\winre.wim /h
  9. C:\windows\system32\reagentc /setREImage /path M:\recovery\windowsre /target C:\windows

**FINISHED!!!! RESET YOUR PC **

Originally by Chris Coroner