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The driverpacks need to decompressed to let's say D:\Drivers. %usb%\WinntSetup\WinNTSetup_x86.exe NT5 -source:l:\ -syspart:C: -tempdrive:c: -setup -reboot -drivers:D:\Drivers

Good to hear it works now. I'm no expert about GPT, but maybe this diskpart options should hide the volume if it still not helps, maybe also use this on your recovery volume

2GB sounds good. Just wonder, I'm no really friend of deleting files in WinSxS folder. But wouldn't it be much safer to simple replace all superseded components with hardlink to the newest version?

Could you give more detail about what error is shown. You diskpart option are correct. In WinNTSetup the boot partition should be auto selected to S: and all icons should be green.

Sounds very interesting! How much space does it saves with the default recommended updates provided by Windows Updates (~ 209 updates if I recall correct)?

A made a program to add all needed information: https://wimlib.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=248&p=324#p324 About the speed, well you will need to check it out.

A similar problem also appeared in WinXP. I doubt that it could be server issue. I would say WU simply isn't designed for so many updates.

WU saves it's information in database: \Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb. Sysprep will delete the complete \Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder, so the next time that huge database needs to regenerated again. This huge database can on a low RAM PC (< 4GB) cause a lot slow pagefile usage.

I have absolutely no idea were this "26" is coming from, but good it's working now.

Hirens BCD is Warez and we don't discuss nor support this here. With vague, I mean what the exact error text that shown? Direct install from CD is very different from the setup WinNTSetup does.

@Atari800XL Yeah, you not alone with this problem. The Windows Update Service is besides Windows Installer, WMI, .Net Framework, Component System and Driver Store, one of the most pathetic implementations in Windows, one I can think of. However after installing KB3083710 and KB3102810 the initial search takes less than an 30 minutes here, what's okay for me, creating new sysprep images every couple of month. @Affiliate60 First, don't don't use Hirens BCD! Second, msgbox with "26", it to vague For your recovery DVD: if it detects the edition wrong it's certainly not good sign.

In this case it should be better you launch it with a cmd file. WinNTSetup_x64.exe NT6 -silentshutdown -r -t 0rem wpeutil reboot

Yeah, 30 seconds is the quite long default timeout that MS choosed. Next version will add an option for that.

No, none really means no compression. But you can use DISM and export a wim file to an esd file, than compression is called recovery.

XPRESS (fast) decompression is measurable faster than LZX (max) compression LZMS (recovery) decompression is much slower than all others.

Hi commiethebeastie, Thanks for the report. WinNTSetup requires the XML information from a wimfile. A wimlib captured wim is missing most of them, so the wim file is not accepted. I added a workaround in version 3.8.5.5, please try again.

Yes, wimboot/compact is all about space saving. In general you will not noticed the decompression that happens while accessing the files. In theory with a fast CPU and a very slow hard disk, you could even have a small speed gain.

The compact option enables the new system compression (Compact OS) of windows 10. You can read here about Compact OS, single-instancing, and image optimization In addition it allows you to choose between the supported compression algorithms. As a rule of thumb one can say the stronger the compression the slower the file access.

These new ini settings only set the default values, it will not override existing folders options.

It's designed that way to remember all changes.

I did not add any command line options, so yes they are ini keys. Make sure you put them in a section: [WinNT5] or [WinNT6].

The space that can be saved by using wimboot or compact mode varied very much depending on many things. Of course you can use custom WIM and VHDs.

Version 3.8.5.3 now fixes the download command and exist after downloading the files. Further is now possible to set defaults to the folder browsing option in your ini file. Following will set all the dialogs to the same dir as where WinNTSetup.exe is located. [WinNT5]dir=.\[WinNT6]dir=.\There are also driverdir, sourcedir, unattenddir, oemdir, and rundir avalible. All dialogs will remember the last location, this also includes changes made by ini or command line.

If you want to use a different named ini, you need to use command line. Add -cfg:config7.ini

Don't think it necessary to add format option, but i'll think about it.