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I'm trying to pull a Windows 8.1 .wim file down to a laptop (the same laptop that was the source of the .wim), and am following these directions from MS. Everything works until "W:\Windows\System32\Recovery\winre.wim T:\Recovery\WindowsRE\winre.wim" (W:\ is what will be called C:\, when I get into Windows).

As far as I can tell, there is no winre.wim in W:\windows\system32\recovery. I ran used dir to search the W: drive, but there is no winre.wim. Where is it?

Thanks.

StackExchangeGuy
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The winre.wim is a file within the install.wim image, which should be mounted first. The mounting is carried out in Step 5:

dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:R:\install.wim /Index:1 /ApplyDir:C:\

In your case, as you have a W drive and prefer to mount the install.wim image to that location, you should have done something like:

dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:R:\install.wim /Index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\

PS: The answer assumes a standard install.wim that is equivalent to the one found on the standard installation medium. If your "Windows 8.1 .wim" is customized or created by non-standard means, then it might be really missing the winre.wim file. In that case, you can download the disk image from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

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