My First Post

Here is teh first post ... fo rtesting th enew template...
Select any physical machine where you want the VHD to be created :
1. Select a machine where Win 7 RC or Windows Server 2008 R2 is installed. On this machine, install WAIK. You can download the WAIK for Win 7 or Win 2K8 R2 from  www.microsoft.com site for free. Its a free downloadable file.
2. Opened CMD. Typed in the command DISKPART. We can create a virtual disk using DISKPART utility.
Syntax Used : Create VDisk File="D:\VHD\bootvhd.hd" Maximum=15000 type=fixed
The virtual harddisk is created in D:\VHD with name bootvhd.vhd
3. Copied the Install.win (available on TS-CORE-43 machine) into D:\VHD folder.
4. Attached the VDisk using the syntax : attach VDisk
5. Once done, typed in : List Disk. This listed all the available disks. The newly created virtual disk was showing up as "Disk 1"
6. Selected the newly created disk using : select Disk 1
7. Created a primary partition : create part primary
8. Now selected the primary partition :  select part 1
9. Made the partition active: active
10. Formatted the partition : format fs=ntfs quick
11. Assigned a drive letter (The letter was assigned automatically) : assign
The new virtual disk was created with letter "G"
12. Placed the Imagex tool in the D:\Windows\System32
13. Got the Index of the file using the syntax below :
D:\Windows\System32>imagex /info d:\vhd\install.wim
This command gave the following data:
ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
Version: 6.1.7100.0
WIM Information:
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Path:        d:\vhd\install.wim
GUID:        {4e82a2aa-e72a-4e48-a9f3-baf57520c149}
Image Count: 8
Compression: LZX
Part Number: 1/1
Attributes:  0xc
             Integrity info
             Relative path junction
Available Image Choices:
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<WIM>
  <TOTALBYTES>2719372524</TOTALBYTES>
  <IMAGE INDEX="1">
    <DIRCOUNT>13545</DIRCOUNT>
    <FILECOUNT>59992</FILECOUNT>
    <TOTALBYTES>10298617619</TOTALBYTES>
    <CREATIONTIME>
      <HIGHPART>0x01C9C331</HIGHPART>
      <LOWPART>0xA363D554</LOWPART>
    </CREATIONTIME>
    <LASTMODIFICATIONTIME>
      <HIGHPART>0x01C9C358</HIGHPART> 

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