Get WAIK Tools w/o loading the huge ISO's

Hi Kare,

for wimgapi.dll select the normal Win7 tools and copy the file in the dism folder after download.

Bcdedit.exe from windows 7 is not possible, but you can use the one from Win 8 tools, it works even in WinXP.

 

Hi JFX

Thanks for the infos and help.

[german]
Schau doch mal wieder bei uns vorbei.

Kare
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Download link is dead!!!! :-(

Download link is dead!!!! :-(

Yeah working again.

GWT is a download tool written in Autoit3, so it gets quite some false positives:

https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/cdeed149766c312cb344cefcb4e926e47c8f3dd537ad3406884b6e2f102a5e1f/analysis/

Sadly instead of reporting to the author (me), people report to file hoster as malware. 

Congratulations JFX, GetWAIKTools is mentioned in the new German Com! magazine (august 2013)

 

Yes and not for the first time 

BTW: I thing for ADK 8.1, I'll pass this time.
There are no new functions and they now even drop Vista as supported OS.

Congratulation for the new article on GWT in the .Com German magazine 

I also saw for the Vista support after XP for the previous version 

For Info, I did not manage drivers integration in PE with 8.1 preview source without ADK 8.1 Dism.
I guess it's the same for Add-Package, EnableFeature...  may need more testing on my part.

At first sight if you want to support in future, some ADK8.1 cab files and filxxx inside seem similar to those of ADK8 but for dism there is the additional files.

You mean you had success integration drivers using adk 8.1 dism?

Normally Dism.exe only extracts the built-in dism and that does all work.
But since all dism files in WinBlue are linked to new api files. I thought it would not be possible

You mean you had success integration drivers using adk 8.1 dism?

Yes, I have successfully integrated drivers using adk 8.1 dism in Windows 8.1 preview image.

And I have an error if I try to integrate drivers in Windows 8.1 preview image by using :
- adk 8 dism.
- or with the files from Windows 8.1 (the same file list than adk 8.1 prepared in dism folder) !

but all this quickly tried in win7 host without looking in more detail.

Okay, updated for ADK 8.1 Preview.

Thank you for the support of waik tools and dism for Windows 8.1.
It is perfect 

JFX,  I guess ChrisR is still enjoying his well-deserved vacation, maybe you can confirm the following for me:
in this (current) script:
http://w8pese.cwcodes.net/Projects/Win8PESE/Build/00-retrieve.script
I believe line 84 should be removed:

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If,Not,ExistFile,%Tools%\x86\wimmount.inf,Set,%Waik4Tools%,-Win8

This line checks for a file that is dynamically made in the script, so no need for it to be there prior to running the Win8PESE project. Compare it to lines 88-93, where the file is not checked in the 64bit section.

If this line is removed, it is possible to prepare an offline version of the Win8PESE project (that has already performed "GetWAIKTools" once), that can be run on a seperate PC. If the line is not removed, the seperate PC will have to download the tools again, based on a (false) assumption that the tools are not complete.

Can you please confirm (or deny?) so we can ask ChrisR upon his return? Thanks!

Can you please confirm (or deny?) so we can ask ChrisR upon his return? Thanks!

Yes, confirmed this line needs to be removed.

But also the remaining Inf file stuff, since the wimmount.inf is not used anymore.
The preconfig script also needs to be updated to use WimMountInstall.exe instead of the wimmount.inf.

Thanks. I didn't look further than that single line forcing the new download, for my puny brain that was already some minor form of rocketscience 
So you're saying wimmount.inf is no longer used, not even on XP? Building Win8PESE on an old/ spare offline PC running XP always makes me giggle... 

So you're saying wimmount.inf is no longer used, not even on XP?

Good question!
Wimmount.inf is not a part of the ADK, but as the ADK don't support XP 

Guess I'll have to make some tests, if this can work on old XP.

OK, just to be clear: At the moment I use an older PC for building Win8PESE. Very nice to see "old man XP" helping out to create "young sprinter dude" Win8PESE.

I don't know exactly which inf file/ driver/ etc. is used for which task, all I noticed was that one extra line in the retrieve script. Maybe we should keep it at that for now? (If it ain't broke, don't fix it).

I have used XP to build Win8PESE for months now, so there's no problem in that! (until now at least!)

Your right let's keep that way.
It seems WimMountInstall.exe just updates the WIMMount service to use the new .sys file.
But it doesn't create the service without restarting on XP.

ChrisR, welcome back, hope you had a nice holiday.
I would like to give this thread a little "bump", so you can maybe see it a little easier in the "Active Topics". Just wondering if you could also confirm that line 84 can be removed from the retrieve script. If you take a brief glance at the stuff JFX talked about in the previous posts, I'm sure you can agree?
It's not of the most importance, but I thought you might get it out of the way and be done with it? Thanks!!

Hi Atari800xl, Hi JFX;

Thank you for showing me it 
Indeed you are right the line 84 must be removed, as JFX said wimmount.inf is not part of the ADK.

as the ADK don't support XP 

I'll do some testing on XP and NT6 with wimmount.inf / WimMountInstall.exe to see the improvements to do in the preconfig script also.
Edit: and now ADK for Windows 8.1 no longer supports Vista in addition, Thanks M$, I hope they will not do the same with Win7 next year.

Hi Chris,

I have not notice any change after using WimMountInstall.exe
Maybe the new driver is useful for the fast mounting, to faster add dism packages.

Anyway GWT updated to use ADK 8.1 RTM