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Create Windows 7 AIO

This document provides instructions for creating a Windows 7 All-In-One (AIO) DVD that contains all editions of Windows 7, including Enterprise editions, by merging installation files (.wim files) from different Windows 7 ISO files into a single install.wim file using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) tools. The process requires extracting files from Windows 7 DVDs/ISOs, copying them to appropriate folders, running WAIK commands to export editions from one .wim file to another, and then burning the result to a DVD. When complete, the single DVD will allow installing any of the 11 Windows 7 editions from a single media source.

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Create Windows 7 AIO

This document provides instructions for creating a Windows 7 All-In-One (AIO) DVD that contains all editions of Windows 7, including Enterprise editions, by merging installation files (.wim files) from different Windows 7 ISO files into a single install.wim file using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) tools. The process requires extracting files from Windows 7 DVDs/ISOs, copying them to appropriate folders, running WAIK commands to export editions from one .wim file to another, and then burning the result to a DVD. When complete, the single DVD will allow installing any of the 11 Windows 7 editions from a single media source.

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Create Windows 7 AIO (All In One) DVD or Merge all editions of

Windows 7 in single DVD


1
We have already an article to merge all editions of Windows Vista into single DVD and it
works with Windows 7 as well. Our an reader wished to have an simple step by step guide
to create Windows 7 AIO DVD or you can say the biggest AIO, that have all x86 and x64
editions including Enterprise editions. Finally we have done it and managed to fit it into a
4GB DVD, that is the most interesting thing. So without wasting your time, Lets start…

Requires:

 Windows 7 DVD/ISO (x86 & x64) – You can choose any edition, because the DVD
holds the all editions i.e. Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional and
Ultimate.
 Windows 7 Enterprise DVD/ISO (x86 & x64) – Windows 7 Enterprise is not available
through retail channels.
 Windows Automation Installation Kit (WAIK for Windows 7)
 Blank DVD (DVD5 – 4GB in size) compatible DVD Burner and CD/DVD burning
software (likeNero, ImgBurn)

How To:
(We have merged all x64 editions one by one into x86 DVD, because x64 DVD has 64-bit
contents that can’t run under Win32 mode but Vista x86 content can run under 64-bit
environment easily under SYSWOW64 and x64 DVD has only less editions than x86 DVD)

1. Install WAIK and the burning program & create folders as shown in figure:

We created a folder named  AIO  on the root of E: drive and then two subfolders
named  DVD  andWIMs  in AIO.
2. Now copy/extract the content of Windows 7 x86 edition into DVD folder and
copy/extract all WIM image file (install.wim, located under sources folder)
into WIMs folder.

We extracted and renamed all WIM images like that.

3. First of all unlock the x86 editions, delete ei.cfg file from AIODVDSources folder. For


more information: Unlock all editions from Windows 7 ISO image (x86 and x64)

4. Run WAIK command prompt (Deployment Tools Command Prompt) As Administrator


Start > All Programs > Microsoft Windows AIK > Deployment Tools Command
Prompt

Each edition has an unique INDEX NO. in the install.wim (WIM file), you can check using the
following command.

Imagex /info <path_of_wim_file>

The List of INDEX NOS in different WIM files:

Windows 7 x86 Windows 7 x64 Windows 7 Enterprise x86 Windows 7 Enterprise x64
Starter – 1 Home Basic – 1 Enterprise – 1 Enterprise – 1
Home Basic – 2 Home Premium – 2    
Home Premium – 3 Professional – 3    
Professional – 4 Ultimate – 4    
Ultimate – 5      
These INDEX NOS will be needed, when we export one edition from an WIM file to another
one.
5. Now execute the following command with appropriate INDEX NO to export a copy of the
specified edition to another WIM file.

Imagex /export <path_of_source_wim_file> <index_no> <path_of_destination_wim_file>


<description_of_edition>

For Us, the commands will be as follows:

For Windows 7 Enterprise x86

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x86_ENT.wim” 1 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 ENTERPRISE”

For Windows 7 Home Basic x64

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x64_ULT.wim” 1 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 HOMEBASIC (x64)”

For Windows 7 Home Premium x64

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x64_ULT.wim” 2 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM (x64)”

For Windows 7 Professional x64

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x64_ULT.wim” 3 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL (x64)”

For Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x64_ULT.wim” 4 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 ULTIMATE (x64)”

For Windows 7 Enterprise x64

Imagex /export “E:AIOWIMsWindows_7x64_ENT.wim” 1 “E:AIODVDsourcesinstall.wim”


“Windows 7 ENTERPRISE (x64)”

6. Once you are done! The WIM image in AIO folder will be an Universal WIM file, which will
have all editions of Windows 7. The size of WIM file would be approx 3.41GB.
Now DVD folder is ready and you can make bootable DVD and UFD to take a shot.

How to make bootable UFD: Install Windows Vista and Windows 7 using bootable USB
storage device.
How to make bootable DVD: Create bootable Windows Vista and Windows 7 DVD or Create
bootable Windows 7 DVD using Nero.

7. Windows 7 AIO is ready now! You have followed simple 7 steps to create Windows 7 All-
In-One DVD, that includes total 11 editions and fit into a single layer DVD.

Apart from all these things, it save your 3 blank DVDs and lots of bandwidth, which could
be used to download different editions of Windows7. So install it and have fun…

Applies To:

 Windows 7 family
 Windows Vista family
 Windows Server 2008

- UPDATED 04/15/2010

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