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, 200917 yr by 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

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