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what is differrence between this two methods of image manipulation of dism from windows 8.1?
dism /Mount-Wim:image.wim ...
and
dism /Mount-Image:image.wim ...
shibormot
Posted 2015-11-16T03:07:30.670
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Dism option difference: /mount-image vs /mount-wim
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The /Mount-Image command also allows you to mount a VHD file to service it (install updates) while the other command only supports WIM files.
DISM.exe /Mount-Image /ImageFile:C:\test\images\myimage.vhd /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\test\offline /ReadOnly
The reason why both options show up is that the /Mount-Image was added in Windows 8, while the original DISM command was introduced in Windows 7. Removing the /Mount-Wim would break older scripts which were written for Windows 7 but would still works for Windows 8.
magicandre1981
Posted 2015-11-16T03:07:30.670
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but Mount-Image also can mount wim-files to service it... so are there other reasons why Mount-Wim exists? – shibormot – 2015-11-16T07:45:33.413
the reason is COMPATIBILITY. I added a bit more to my answer – magicandre1981 – 2015-11-16T20:41:49.867