I'm trying to update an install.wim I created for a community center, where I volunteer. I have a software engineering background that helps me support the PCs there. After mounting the image and adding some Windows packages, I attempted to compress the resulting install.wim, but I keep running into issues with the Export-Image command. The error messages indicate that the install.wim isn't mounted despite my checks proving otherwise. I can mount it with the CheckIntegrity command without a hitch, and the ScanHealth command shows no corruption. What am I missing here? Why does DISM keep failing with the Export-Image command?
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Hey, kudos for your work at the community center! One thing you might want to try is disabling any antivirus software while you attempt the export. Sometimes they interfere with file operations like these. Just remember to turn it back on once you're done!
Good point! Just to be safe, a clean boot could help eliminate any other potential software conflicts during the process.
It sounds like your install.wim might be corrupted even if the integrity checks say otherwise. This can happen sometimes. You could try recreating the wim from scratch or using a different source file if you have one, just to see if that makes any difference.
If that's the case, I wonder why it mounts fine sometimes but fails on export. Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot that further?
Yeah, it's strange. It might be worth running some disk checks on your drive as well, just to rule out hardware issues.
Great idea! I'll give that a shot. But do you think they would have excluded the .wim files?