Installing Windows 7 Using Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) - Part 6

In this final installment of the series, I show how to install a new Windows 7 workstation using the tools and components we've put in place.  This final piece leverages our custom .wim file, which we install from the network share where it was placed in the previous video, to build a fully-functioning Windows 7 environment.

The tools we use in this video are:

1. BCDBOOT - Used to set up a system partition on a computer, or to repair the boot environment within the system partition of a computer.  BCDBoot can be run from Windows PE
2. DISKPART - A Command-line tool that enables disk configuration and management from within a Windows PE environment
3. IMAGEX - A command-line tool used to capture, modify, and rapidly deploy file-based disk images.

Reference Material Used in Creating this Blog:

• Step-by-Step: Basic Windows Deployment for IT Professionals
• BCDBoot Command-Line Options
• A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
• What is ImageX?