Wim

WIM (Microsoft Windows Imaging Format) is a file-based disk image format for Windows. It is often used in Windows installers.

Installation

On Linux, install wimlib to work on these files.

View information

To view information about the WIM file (including but not limited to: name, index, etc…), use:

$ wiminfo image_file

Mount

WIM as an image file can be mounted with the following command

Read-only mount

# wimmount image_file index directory

Mount as read/write

# wimmountrw image_file index directory

Unmount

# wimunmount directory --commit

to apply the changes in the read-write mount.

Note: No changes will be applied without the --commit parameter.

Directory structure

To view the directory structure of a WIM image, use:

# wimdir image_file index

Extract the image

To extract the full image, do:

# wimapply image_file index target_directory

If you only need a few files from the image, use wimextract(1).

Compression

The Windows ISO is larger than 4GiB, so it cannot be copied to a boot disk formatted with the FAT32 file system, you will need to compress install.wim to do this:

# wimlib-imagex optimize install.wim --solid