Windows 10: Why isnt there a .wim file in the backup folder

Hello everyone,I guess there is already a thread regarding this problem, but I wasn't able to find it. For a school project, I have to make a working WDS service on my Windows Server 2019 VM. For this to work, I have to acquire an image in the .wim format.The workstation is also a VM, running Windows 10 Pro. The two VMs are connected, but the workstation is not in the domain. I have tried to achieve this goal in multiple ways. I have tried to use DISM, but it resulted in even more problems. I have tried multiple third-party applications, but those apps didn't do what I wanted them to dne of

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Compacting a wim file?

Sorry, no idea where to put this. I just recently learned how to use dism. I use it to slipstream all hotfixes and ie10 ect into an AIO install disc. The problem is, it creates a huge install.wim after 8 index mounts and slipstreams. Considering all 8 images use the same darn wim and files, don't know why it has to increase the wim size by 1gig. Either I need to figure out how to use the same wim.install file for all indexes, or I need to compact the wim file which is now 4gbs with ie10 and all updates to April. Any way to do either?

 

Compacting a wim file?

Actually it turns out the answer is the dism that comes with Win8. Using the new Export-Image command, and a simple batch file, was able to compress my AIO wim by several hundred mbs.

 

WIM File

What I see is some kind of Windows Recovery drive or copy of C drive, along with two large .wim files that possibly contain your pictures if the size is about the same as their aggregate size.

TBH Perry I've never seen anything quite this freakish to happen to pictures on a flash stick. I have kept my files on a flash stick before that is also created as bootable installation media or recovery drive and never had them convert. To have them convert to a .wim file which is normally only contains the Windows operating system is perplexing.

However we do know that .wim files can be mounted and have their files extracted. I gave you the steps for this already. So that's what I'd try next.