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Learn to deploy the DaRT recovery image as a remote partition

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After you have finished running the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 10 Recovery Image wizard and created the recovery image, you can extract the boot.wim file from the ISO image file and deploy it as a remote partition on the network.

To deploy DaRT 10 as a remote partition:

  1. Extract the boot.wim file from the DaRT ISO image file. To do so:

    1. Mount the ISO image file that you created in the Create Startup Image your preferred method of mounting an image. (File Explorer, PowerShell cmdlets, the Disk Management tool, or Windows ADK)

    2. Navigate to the mounted volume and copy the boot.wim file from the \sources folder to a location on your computer.

      Note

      If you burned a CD or DVD of the recovery image, you can open the files on the CD or DVD and copy the boot.wim file from the \sources folder. This lets you skip the need to mount the image.

  2. Deploy the boot.wim file to a WDS server that can be accessed from end-user computers in your enterprise.

  3. Configure the WDS server to use the boot.wim file for DaRT by following your standard WDS deployment procedures.

For more information about how to deploy DaRT as a remote partition, see Walkthrough: Deploy an Image by Using PXE and Windows Deployment Services Getting Started Guide.