Wednesday 27 September 2017

Split wim image file into swm and apply

I encountered an issue that USB thumbdrives created for UEFI only has 32G in FAT32 and files larger than 4G cannot be copied to it due to limitation from FAT32.  Here is a solution:

To split a windows image file:

Dism /Split-Image /ImageFile:m:\rollout\Win10.wim /SWMFile:m:\rollout\splited\win10.swm /FileSize:4000


To apply a slited image file:

dism /apply-image /imageFile:m:\rollout\splited\install.swm /swmfile:m:\rollout\splited\install*.swm /applydir:m:\rollout\splited\applied /index:1