New-WindowsImage

Captures an image of a drive to a new WIM file.

Parameter Set: Default
New-WindowsImage -CapturePath <String> -ImagePath <String> -Name <String> [-CheckIntegrity] [-CompressionType <String> ] [-ConfigFilePath <String> ] [-Description <String> ] [-LogLevel <LogLevel> ] [-LogPath <String> ] [-NoRpFix] [-ScratchDirectory <String> ] [-Setbootable] [-Verify] [-WIMBoot] [ <CommonParameters>]

The New-WindowsImage cmdlet captures an image of a drive to a new WIM file. Captured directories include all subfolders and data. You cannot capture an empty directory. A directory must contain at least one file.

This cmdlet does not apply to virtual hard disk (VHD) files.

Specifies the drive or path to the Windows operating system that is to be captured to an image file.

Detects and tracks .wim file corruption when used with the Add—WindowsImage, Dismount-WindowsImage or Save-WindowsImage cmdlet. CheckIntegrity stops the operation if DISM detects that the .wim file is corrupted when used with the Expand-WindowsImage or Mount-WindowsImage cmdlet.

Specifies the location of a configuration file that lists exclusions for image capture commands and compress commands. For more information, see DISM Configuration List and WimScript.ini Files, https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=313768.

Specifies the description of the image to be captured.

Specifies the location of a WIM file.

Specifies the maximum output level shown in the logs. The default log level is 3. The accepted values are as follows:1 = Errors only2 = Errors and warnings3 = Errors, warnings, and information4 = All of the information listed previously, plus debug output

Specifies the full path and file name to log to. If not set, the default is %WINDIR%\Logs\Dism\dism.log.In Windows PE, the default directory is the RAMDISK scratch space which can be as low as 32 MB. The log file will automatically be archived. The archived log file will be saved with .bak appended to the file name and a new log file will be generated. Each time the log file is archived the .bak file will be overwritten. When using a network share that is not joined to a domain, use the net use command together with domain credentials to set access permissions before you set the log path for the DISM log.

Specifies the name of an image in a WIM file.

Disables the reparse point tag fix. A reparse point is a file that contains a link to another file on the file system. If the parameter is not specified, reparse points that resolve to paths outside of the value specified by the ImagePath parameter will not be captured.

Specifies a temporary directory that will be used when extracting files for use during servicing. The directory must exist locally. If not specified, the \Windows\%Temp% directory will be used, with a subdirectory name of a randomly generated hexadecimal value for each run of DISM. Items in the scratch directory are deleted after each operation. You should not use a network share location as a scratch directory to expand a package (.cab or .msu file) for installation. The directory used for extracting files for temporary usage during servicing should be a local directory.

Marks a volume image as being a bootable image. This argument is available only for Windows PE images. Only one volume image can be marked as bootable in a .wim file.

Checks for errors and file duplication. During an apply operation, for example, using the Add-WindowsImage cmdlet, the size and the hash of the file being applied are checked against the image file to verify they are both equal. During a capture operation, for example, when using the New-WindowsImage cmdlet, after the files is captured into a Windows image, the file is written to a temporary file and compared on a bit-by-bit basis with the original file.

Specifies that the image will be formatted to install on a Windows Image Format Boot (WIMBoot) system.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see    about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216).

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

• System.String[]
• Microsoft.Dism.Commands.ImageObject
• Microsoft.Dism.Commands.ImageObjectWithState

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

• Microsoft.Dism.Commands.OfflineImageObject

This command captures the Drive D image in the WIM file located on d:\ and save to the file c:\imagestore\custom.wim.

PS C:\> New-WindowsImage -ImagePath c:\imagestore\custom.wim -CapturePath d:\ -Name "Drive D"

Dismount-WindowsImage

Expand-WindowsImage

Export-WindowsImage

Get-WindowsImage

Mount-WindowsImage

New-WindowsImage

Remove-WindowsImage

Repair-WindowsImage

Save-WindowsImage

Split-WindowsImage