wolf2005 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Just as the title says, I have problems with the mounting and unmounting speed of Windows 7 wim images... I have the WAIK for Win 7, and it takes very long to mount or unmount a ~2GB wim image, sometimes even up to half an hour or more. Back when I was unattending Vista, the image was mounted and unmounted in a few minutes max., even with a lot of changes included.Is this a general issue with the new WAIK, do others have the same problem, or it's just me? And no, I don't have a low spec PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Yes it is a lot slower. I do my mounting/unmounting using the server (imagex.WDS.local) in the "My Servers" link in my sig. A Win7 image takes about 1 minute to mount and about 2 minutes to save and unmount. I've just learned to live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Try same image on a different machine, I know the HDD speed plays a small part, but under no circumstance should it be taking half an hour. Maybe you should use Resource Monitor and see what kind of disk activity is going on during the un-mount, it may turn out to be something else is using the disk causing the slowdown. (or not) but you won't know until you check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf2005 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for your replies. The problem didn't seem related with any other program, as I tried on another pc and still the same (although it had almost the same programs installed, except antivirus); I also tried on both PCs with the antivirus disabled, defragmenter disabled, most processes closed etc. However, I started using DISM tool instead of GImageX and all it's fine now (1-2 mins mounting, 2-5 max. unmounting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Ohhhh you were using GImageX to do your mounting. I've only use DISM but I heard that "Tool" thing is pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf2005 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Yeah, GImageX = old stuff, eh? just a Vista tool leftover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Yeah, GImageX = old stuff, eh? just a Vista tool leftover Well it still has its uses, but I don't use it for image modification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nice_guy75 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Instead of WAIK for Windows 7 use WAIK for Vista the process is too fast in WAIK for Vista. I am also experiencing the same thing so I switched to WAIK for Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 (edited) Just for the record and FYI:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=142710I presume (but haven't tested it) that it should work on Vista/7 as well.The good thing is that you don't need the WAIK, but only the Win7 source.jaclaz Edited March 21, 2010 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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