Creating Images

Creating Images
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This topic contains information about the images that you use with Windows Deployment Services. Windows Deployment Services uses two basic image types, both of which use the Windows Image (.wim) file format:

• Install image: The operating system image that you deploy to the client computer. To create install images using Windows Deployment Services, you must first create a capture image.
  
• Boot image: The Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) image that you boot a client into before you install the install image. To install an operating system, you first boot the computer into the boot image, and then you select the install image to install. You can also create two additional types of boot images:
  
  
  • Capture image: A type of boot image that you boot a client computer into to capture the operating system as a .wim file. You must first create a capture image when you are creating custom install images.
    
  • Discover image: A type of boot image that you can use to install an operating system on a computer that is not Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) enabled. When you boot a computer into a discover image, a Windows Deployment Services server will be located, and then you can choose the install image you want to install.