Problem

1. Imagex.exe Windows 8.1 Full
2. Imagex.exe Windows 8.1 64-bit

I recieved a few new Dell TabletPC’s and I wanted to setup and create an image that I could deploy.
While this is a pretty basic task for a systemadministrator I have never gotten this to work properly.

Active Oldest Votes. That often occurs when one of the tools you've included in your Windows PE disk (step 2) is not the correct architecture. Make sure that you copy the right imagex.exe. Here's how they should have written that line in the instructions. C: program files Tools. imagex.exe.

Solution

I want to set up one of the TabletPC’s to my liking and create an image from it and deploy it to one of the other TabletPC’s to test the image.

Steps

1. Microsoft Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM), ImageX's replacement, was released with Windows 8 as part of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK) and will be upgraded, not replaced, with the release of Windows 8.1. ImageX had been deprecated as of the release of Windows 8.
2. Most of the advanced users are aware of the advantages of the ImageX tool in windows. The utility has been created to help professionals create system images (WIM) as well as modify it without.

• Preparing the image
• WinPE USB
• Create image
• Apply image

Result

Preparing the image

1. Install Windows 8.1
2. The system will boot to the post-installation configuration wizard (the welcome screen where you get prompted for username and such). Then press <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<F3> to enter audit mode.
3. Close the Sysprep window.
4. Make all configurations required for your image. You can reboot, the system wil boot into the audit mode automatically.
5. (Optional) I deleted all the Apps:
   • Powershell (Admin):
6. Make unattend.xml and put it under C:WindowsSystem32 (go check out Section 2 and 3 on The Complete Guide to Preparing a Windows 8 Deployment Image using Audit Mode and Sysprep with an unattend.xml Answer File)
7. Prepare the computer for imaging using sysprep
8. The computer will shut down.
9. You can now boot in WinPE to capture the image.

WinPE USB

1. Install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK).
2. Click Start, and type deployment. Right-click Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment and then select Run as administrator.
3. In the Deployment Tools and Imaging Environment, copy the Windows PE files for the PCs you want to boot
4. Mount the Windows PE image
5. (Optional) Add ImageX, for those who don’t want to use the included DISM
6. Unmount the Windows PE image
7. Create Bootable USB
8. Boot from USB

Source: TechNet: Customize Windows PE: Add drivers, packages, and more

Create Image

1. Boot using WinPE USB
2. Capture Partition Image using DISM
3. Save image to other drive

Source: TechNet: Capture Images of Hard Disk Partitions Using DISMspan

Apply Image

1. Boot met WinPE USB
2. Configureer schijf
3. Apply image using DISM /Apply-Image
4. Set up basic system partition

Imagex.exe Windows 8.1 Full

Source: TechNet: Apply Images Using DISM

Imagex.exe Windows 8.1 64-bit