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December 26th, 2010 06:00
Restoring OS on replacement laptop drive from .wim file
Greetings all and Merry Christmas.
My dumb sister-in-law lost the recovery discs that came with her Inspiron 1525 laptop.
I did save the .wim file from her computer on mine.
Now her hard drive has failed completely.
Can someone provide step by step instructions on how to recover from the .wim file if all I have is a laptop, new drive and the .wim file.
Of course I can download whatever utilities might be necessary and have access to functioning computers.
Thanks
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ejn63
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December 26th, 2010 08:00
You can do this by making a bootable Windows PE (or VistaPE, etc.) CD. See
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749311%28WS.10%29.aspx
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January 2nd, 2011 11:00
You may be able to restore using another system, but you'll still need to boot something capable of running ImageX.
There are other programs that can read and restore WIM files (Acronis TrueImage - the full version though, NOT the free one that comes with new hard drives) is among these.
tonyski
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January 2nd, 2011 11:00
Thanks.
I was hoping for something a bit more simple.
Is it possible to connect the new drive to my desktop computer via usb and then restore the drive using the .wim image that is stored on the same computer.
Is imageX the only program for working with .wim files?
I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
The more thorough the explanation, the better
Thanks again