install.wim inside ISO has 0 bytes

[meineomma]

Hi

I am having trouble when creating the ISO file from an image.
The \sources\install.wim seems to be empty, although the overall .iso is about 240 GB in size.

Any idea?

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To explain: via sysprep audit I have created a huge installation, sysprep generalize oobe and dism wim capture. The workflow has worked fine over the years.

Still does until the point where ntlite is supposed to create an .iso file. No idea what is going on here. When opening the .iso with ultraISO and trying to manually add the correct install.wim to \sources\ I get prompted to change the ISO format, because the install.wim exceeds the file system's 4GB limit.

 

[tistou77]

Your ISO (or image directory) is on a disk / USB drive formatted in FAT32 ?
Which would explain the 4GB limit

 

[meineomma]

Your ISO (or image directory) is on a disk / USB drive formatted in FAT32 ?
Which would explain the 4GB limit

I doubt it. See, when you right-click a windows installation in ntlite, it allows you to create an ISO file. However there are no options as to the file system.
Also when I create an ISO from a smaller image, let's say, around 15 GB, the ISO created ultraISO lets me put the > 250 GB .wim into \sources without any problem.

My guess is either there is something wrong with the .ISO creation in ntlite, or my software image may be too large, or there is something wrong with my .wim

However: by recovering the .wim to the partition using DISM++, using

dism /image:C:\ /Apply-Unattend:\unattend.xml

and copying $OEM$ to C:\Windows\

Setup seems to run fine. So I tend to think there's nothing wrong with my .wim file