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@misty However some features of NTFS are not supported by WinFSP https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/doc/NTFS-Compatibility.asciidoc . Most of the limitations could be avoided by writing a user-mode driver, but I'm not sure it would bring more than directly writing a driver from scrat...

Hi synchronisity , It's been a while since I've been here. wimlib remains my primary tool for managing .wim files. It's rock solid stable and has never failed me. The only thing that is missing is the ability to mount in Windows. A developer I have been working with mentioned the following - By the ...

Hi zipmagic, In answer to your question, my Windows 7 test system was relatively "clean" - no updates were installed and only a couple of programs were installed. Following notes may be of use to you. I can't comment on whether this will work on others systems or with other setups. Credit ...

I've just checked install.wim from Windows 7 SP1 source - it uses LZX compression with a chunck size of 32768. Whilst it's not marked with the WIMBOOT flag, the compression and chunk size would appear to be WIMBOOT compatible (based on information in https://wimlib.net/man1/wimlib-imagex-apply.html ...

Below is a batch file I use to copy wofadk.sys and apply the relevant registry settings to an offline system. Path (to wofadk.sys) and TARGET might need editing. Batch will automate the following - * load the target systems SYSTEM registry hive as _SYSTEM (default path of \Windows\system32\config\sy...

Thanks for doing these tests. I've included the file list in wimlib-1.8.3-BETA2, and it now knows to force XPRESS4K compression on all files in the list. Therefore, it should now be possible to apply a full Windows image in "compact mode" using XPRESS8K, XPRESS16K, or LZX compression, wit...

I'd just like to say a very big thank you to synchronicity / Eric . I am the author of two winbuilder projects that can be used to build a customised Windows Preinstallation Environment (a Windows Live distro) within a matter of minutes - at the core of both projects lies wimlib-imagex. Without Eric...

The following is from the wimlib discussion forum on sourceforge (more specifically the Windows 10 compact mode topic) - I suppose that DISM doesn't run into this problem because it probably only uses XPRESS4K. With "WIMBoot" I also did not run into this problem, since the Windows 8.1 earl...

Hi synchronicity , Just been playing around with the new (and experimental) --compact option. Test system was a Windows 7 installation with the wofadk.sys driver added. I captured this as a .wim file, then applied this new wim using the --compact switch. When applying the .wim using a Windows 10 bas...

@ synchronicity Great (and fast!) work. The new beta resolved this issue. I'm currently writing this on a wimboot Windows To Go - the installation was completed using a WAIK WinPE 3.1 build to run wimlib-imagex - the only modifications made to WinPE were the addition of wofadk.sys and the required r...