How To Repair A Vmware Install

Restore a WIM into a VMWare Workstation VM

Nosotros tried this for hours and unsuccessfully searched the cyberspace for an reply and then I thought I would add information on how we accomplished this.

We created corporate WIMs of our standard load for each department in our company. These were created on Dell Optiplex 760s (both the standard and Pocket-size Course Factor). We DID sysprep the images earlier making them nonetheless I don't believe these instructions would make a divergence either fashion. Restoring these on to physical hardware worked fine however attempting to restore ane of these in to a VMWare Virtual Machine did  not.

In summary, we are going to mountain the WIM and inject the VMWare SCSI and LSI drivers. Post-obit are the details.

1. Practice this from a Vista workstation or Windows 2008 Server.
2. Copy the WIM file to your local motorcar. A hurting I know but mounting doesn't appear to work over the network. For this example, we will say our WIM is named Corporate.wim and we placed it in C:Images on our local machine.
3. Download and install the Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 . To install you will accept to burn the image to a DVD or use a programme such every bit Virtual CloneDrive to mount the image.
4. When running the setup there are many items that can exist installed. The only ane you lot need to do is the one that says "Windows AIK Setup".
5. At present, open up an elevated Windows PE Tools Command Prompt from Start…All Programs..Microsoft Windows AIK. You should have a control-prompt window open to c:windowssystem32
6. Type cdimages and hit enter on the keyboard. You lot should now exist at a C:Images> prompt.
7. We at present need to create a directory in which we volition mount the WIM to. Type doc mount and hit enter on the keyboard. This creates a directory named mount as a subdirectory of the Images directory.
8. Now allow'southward mountain the WIM by typing imagex /mountrw Corporate.wim ane mount and hit enter on the keyboard. After a few moments yous should see a bulletin stating Successfully mounted image (RW). Note: In this instance I used the number 1 since I wanted to restore the 1^st image within the WIM. Manifestly change the number accordingly based on the index value of the Image y'all want to restore.
9. Now we need to inject some VMWare SCSI drivers into the WIM. Y'all can minimize the control-prompt until we are fix to keep.
10. Download the SCSI floppy image from VMWare. The name of the file will be vmscsi-one.two.0.4.flp. This floppy epitome contains the following files (disk.tag, txtsetup.oem, vmscsi.true cat, vmscsi.inf, vmscsi.sys). We want to excerpt those five files out of the image. I'one thousand sure there are many ways to practise this all the same what I did was to apply an existing VM from VMWare Workstation and inverse the floppy drive to bespeak to this image instead of Auto Detecting. Put these five files in a directory named SCSI within C:Images
11. Now bring the control-prompt back into focus and type the following: peimg /inf=scsi*.inf mountwindows and hit enter on the keyboard. If all goes well you will receive a bulletin that states PEIMG completed the operation successfully.
12. Now nosotros need to salve the epitome. Do this by typing the following at the command-prompt. imagex /unmount /commit mount So hitting enter on the keyboard. If all goes well you will run into a bulletin that states: Successfully unmounted image.
13. Now y'all can create a new bare Virtual Machine from within VMWare Workstation. Make sure the disk size is at least as large as the Image that you are restoring!
14. Boot to a WinPE disk or Vista Install disk and get to a command-prompt.
15. Type diskpart and hit enter.
16. Type select disk 0 and hit enter.
17. Type create partition main and hit enter.
18. Blazon select partition 1 and hit enter.
19. Blazon assign letter of the alphabet=c and hitting enter.
20. Type active and hit enter.
21. Type format and hit enter.
22. Blazon go out and hit enter.
23. At present use imagex to restore the WIM into the VM. There are many ways to do this and it's described in great particular all over the net. I really wanted to document what I couldn't easily find.
24. When y'all beginning the VM afterward this is all done, hopefully it works as information technology did for me. If it still doesn't work, and then attempt injecting the LSI drivers to meet if it helps.
25. If yous starting time the VM and are presented with an error message referencing winload.exe, boot to a Vista DVD and choose Repair reckoner. Bug will be detected and it will inquire you to restart. Everything should work at this point.

 Good luck!

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