can vlite do this

[itachis.eyes]

just like most people my computer was shipped without an OEM disk, and i made the recovery disks...but every time i do a "clean install" i don't want to take an hour or two just to remove all the bloatware (mostly norton) from my computer.

i thought since vista installation is really not an installation rather imaging from the disk to the hard drive that i could use windows pe to get my c: drive into .WIM format (windows image format) but vlite doesn't like this kind of format, or rather just this file, i haven't had time to really test anything till now since i was busy with finals and getting my diploma and all that jazz (bye bye high school! XD)

posable problems i have identafied:

1) vlite just doesn't do that

2) vlite would like to have it in an .ISO format (but at 17 gigs i'm gonna have to go an remake the image)

3) i didn't make the image bootable from within imagex

4) my computer just doesn't like me and HP is out to get me (ok that was a joke)

anyways thanks for any insight into my project, thanks much,

-alexander the great

Edited June 7, 2009 by itachis.eyes

[Tomorrow]

just like most people my computer was shipped without an OEM disk, and i made the recovery disks...but every time i do a "clean install" i don't want to take an hour or two just to remove all the bloatware (mostly norton) from my computer.

i thought since vista installation is really not an installation rather imaging from the disk to the hard drive that i could use windows pe to get my c: drive into .WIM format (windows image format) but vlite doesn't like this kind of format, or rather just this file, i haven't had time to really test anything till now since i was busy with finals and getting my diploma and all that jazz (bye bye high school! XD)

posable problems i have identafied:

1) vlite just doesn't do that

2) vlite would like to have it in an .ISO format (but at 17 gigs i'm gonna have to go an remake the image)

3) i didn't make the image bootable from within imagex

4) my computer just doesn't like me and HP is out to get me (ok that was a joke)

anyways thanks for any insight into my project, thanks much,

-alexander the great

Well you could always do reverse integration.Remove the bloat,install service packs etc and remake WIM and later use vLite to open that wim

[itachis.eyes]

just like most people my computer was shipped without an OEM disk, and i made the recovery disks...but every time i do a "clean install" i don't want to take an hour or two just to remove all the bloatware (mostly norton) from my computer.

i thought since vista installation is really not an installation rather imaging from the disk to the hard drive that i could use windows pe to get my c: drive into .WIM format (windows image format) but vlite doesn't like this kind of format, or rather just this file, i haven't had time to really test anything till now since i was busy with finals and getting my diploma and all that jazz (bye bye high school! XD)

posable problems i have identafied:

1) vlite just doesn't do that

2) vlite would like to have it in an .ISO format (but at 17 gigs i'm gonna have to go an remake the image)

3) i didn't make the image bootable from within imagex

4) my computer just doesn't like me and HP is out to get me (ok that was a joke)

anyways thanks for any insight into my project, thanks much,

-alexander the great

Well you could always do reverse integration.Remove the bloat,install service packs etc and remake WIM and later use vLite to open that wim

nope...didn't workout, but if i could combine the iso's of the recovery disks into one that might work...i'm gonna look into it, XD