building vista from existing installation?

[mahe06]

i have dell system a month old.

it came with home premium with sp1, since its a month, i have updated all the latest updates from microsoft. so my pc is upto date now. i did installed the latest media center update too.

so my question is the vista is in drive c:

is it possible to make a vista dvd from my drive C: using the exisitng installation of the home premium on the hard drive?

if its possible to make pl tell me how can i proceed?

any help d be appreciated, since its upto date i want to make new dvd from existing installation

thanks

[mnlk2]

i think you can, must just have a winPE2 CD/DVD with imageX

boot your PC with your WINPE2 CD/DVD and just capture your system partition with this command : imagex /capture /flags "EditionID" /compress maximum X: X²:\capture.wim

X: letter of windows installation

X² letter of the partition where you want to copy the capture.wim

EditionID must be :

HomeBasic

HomePremium

Starter

Ultimate

Business

Enterprise

ServerDatacenter

ServerEnterprise

ServerStandard

[Mrak]

I have two Vista systems, first on the C:\ and second on the D:\ .. D is instaled in audit mode and used OOBE,Generalize and shutdown.. When I load system on C, run imagex with: imagex /compress maximum /flags "Ultimate" /capture D: C:\install.wim "Windows Vista Ultimate"

then scanning and in few seconds close window without create install.wim

I need help

And postreflect D:\Windows C: not work too..

My bad english, sorry

Second system I installed and run ctlr-shift-f3 from create user.. I installed sp1, updates, software and all that.. And run sysprep with setting top..

Edit/ I restart PC now, run imagex .. It work yet

Edit2/ I tested image and work it, but not open in vlite for tweaks, and components delete..

Edited August 26, 2008 by Mrak