Creating and restore image using the built-in features in Windows

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Create a Windows RE environment for emergency purpose

reagentc /setreimage /path S:\Recovery\WindowsRE

Registers the location of a push-button reset image in an online or offline image

reagentc /setosimage /path R:\RecoveryImage /index 1

Create a system image

dism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:"D:\fabrikam.wim" /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:Fabrikam /ConfigFile:<configuration list>

Configuration file

[ExclusionList]
\BigFolder

To restore an Image using DISM, boot into Windows PE then start diskpart

select disk 0 clean create partition primary size=3000 id=27 format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery" assign letter="R" create partition primary size=300 format quick fs=ntfs label="System" assign letter="S" active create partition primary format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows" assign letter="C" exit

Then restore your image from network/usb drive using DISM:

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