restoring wim files from external drive to hard drive on computer

Question

how do I restore wim files to my hard drive? I saved filed after computer crashed, to an external drive. Now I need to restore those files to my hard drive. Thanks

Answer 1

You can use DISM or ImageX to apply a WIM to a partition:

Dism /apply-image /imagefile:N:\Images\my-windows-partition.wim /index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824910.aspx