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When you use the Imagex.exe utility to capture a image from Windows PE (WINPE), imagex may exit without an error message. A successful capture would display "successfully imaged c:\."
This message is not seen in this situation.
Example command line:
imagex /capture c: c:\test.wim "test"
Trying to open or otherwise apply this image results in error "Invalid Image" to be displayed.
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Imagex recurses the directory structures during the capture process. When a directory name is encountered with a space, " ", a stack overflow is generated in Imagex. Imagex immediately exits and cannot provide any errors.
Example of a directory structure that will cause the issue:
Directory of C:\test
�
05/09/2009 12:35 PM <DIR> .
05/09/2009 12:35 PM <DIR> ..
05/09/2009 12:35 PM <DIR>
0 File(s) 0 bytes
3 Dir(s) 159,940,136,960 bytes free
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To work around this issue, remove the directory with a space as the name with the following command:
����rd \\?\c:\<path>\
Note Between the last \ and " is a space.
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