This was pulled from the Dell forums, cannot find the original post, not sure how well this will work when updating a Vista Image to W7, let me know if it works for you.
If you have a recovery partition you can update it to the current state.
Before you begin it would be a good idea to backup the original image at D:\dell\Image\Factory.wim.
Where D is the recovery partition. Its a few GBs usually 3-4.
Procedure:
1. Restore your system and fully update including removing anything unwanted (programs) from the system.
2. Reboot pressing F8 as if you were to go into safe mode.
The recovery system mounts the recovery partition as X which is usually D. Append will update the existing image of the C drive where the image is stored a X:\dell\Image\Factory.wim. "OS" is not required but it names the partition like it is in Windows in the original system configuration.
In my Optiplex 3020 I have three factory,wim files (factory.wim (4GB), factory2.wim(4GB), factory3.wim(1GB) created the same date and before ownership of the computer). I cannot install windows 10 as it cannot update reserved partition.
mombodog
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This was pulled from the Dell forums, cannot find the original post, not sure how well this will work when updating a Vista Image to W7, let me know if it works for you.
If you have a recovery partition you can update it to the current state.
Before you begin it would be a good idea to backup the original image at D:\dell\Image\Factory.wim.
Where D is the recovery partition. Its a few GBs usually 3-4.
Procedure:
1. Restore your system and fully update including removing anything unwanted (programs) from the system.
2. Reboot pressing F8 as if you were to go into safe mode.
3. Choose to repair your computer.
4. Open the Command Prompt and type:
cd\tools (Enter)
imagex /APPEND C: X:\dell\Image\Factory.wim "OS" (Enter)
The recovery system mounts the recovery partition as X which is usually D. Append will update the existing image of the C drive where the image is stored a X:\dell\Image\Factory.wim. "OS" is not required but it names the partition like it is in Windows in the original system configuration.
SpyrosM
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June 28th, 2016 05:00
In my Optiplex 3020 I have three factory,wim files (factory.wim (4GB), factory2.wim(4GB), factory3.wim(1GB) created the same date and before ownership of the computer). I cannot install windows 10 as it cannot update reserved partition.