Working with Windows Image (WIM) files

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) is a powerful set of tools for IT people to make lots of things happen with Windows 7.

One of the best, and most promising is the WindowsPE boot disk.

Using a WindowsPE boot disk and Microsoft’s own imagex.exe you can make a very nice windows backup image.

Here are a few links:

Restore a WIM into a VMWare Workstation VM | The Shizzy.

http://www.sqlpanda.com/2013/09/import-wim-to-vmware.html

WIM2VHD powershell script:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Convert-WindowsImageps1-0fe23a8f

and here is a great place to look for related files:

http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/getwaiktools