
This process might take a while and you cannot turn off the PC during the time. In that case, you need to replace the drive letter "C" with where the Windows installed, and replace “D:\windows10” in ImageFile switch with the target location path where you want to save the custom image. Note: The drive letter may change under recovery mode, so the Windows installation drive may not be C: drive. Type the following command and press Enter.ĭism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:D:\windows10\install.wim /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:windows10 If you boot from a recovery media, then select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Command Prompt.ģ. If you boot from the installation disc, you can press Shift + F10 at Windows Setup screen to bring out command prompt. Boot your PC from the recovery media or installation media.Ģ. Below will take Windows 10 as an example.ġ. With that prepared, you can follow the steps below to capture Windows 10 recovery image as well as Windows 11 recovery image. To use it, you need a Windows 10/11 recovery media or installation disk. Windows 10/11 has built-in feature DISM that allows you to capture Windows image under recovery environment.

You can view its content by mounting it as a virtual drive.It can be standalone from backup tools or cloud services.It is very convenient to deploy it to other devices.The ISO image itself is bootable so you can use it to restore your PC when you have boot issues.If the backup is ISO image, then you can enjoy some more benefits compared with other image backup format: Thus when your system crashes due to various problems, you can quickly roll it back to the state where the backup was taken. It is very important to backup your operating system just in case.
