I understand the overall general purpose of what sysprep is. But I’m not sure if it created a file or something I can use as the golden image to deploy onto my other systems. I was hoping it was gonna create an iso or wim file that I could throw onto a USB thumb drive and use that to install Windows on my other machines.

I missed a class somewhere. Funny I don’t remember skipping any of those classes. 😔

  • Random_Brit_@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    One way could be to use imaging tools such as Acronis.

    Make a bootable .iso and and extra .vhd for a second HDD

    Boot into the .iso and make your image on the second drive.

    Then disconnect the .iso and boot your VM normally.

    Then once VM has booted, set up SMB share for the second HDD, then use that to copy the image from the VM second HDD to the actual VM host.

    Then make a bootable Acronis .iso, copy the image from hyper v host to the bootable Acronis USB, and you will have achieved you goal.

    But need an acronis license, or some equivalent and similar software.