1.4.45.5 - Unable to mount any WIM

[Fragbert]

I am really baffled as to why I can no longer mount *any* WIM after upgrading to 1.4.45.5. I made sure AV is disabled, have plenty of free space available on C:\, and run Wintookit.exe as an administrator. Never had a single problem mounting before on a setup that has not changed in years. I even tried using an older version of wintoolkit, 1.4.37.20 to no avail. Is there something obvious I am overlooking? Rights to the temp space have never been altered. Any ideas?

 

Attached is a screenshot and a image link just in case this doesn't show up.

[Cartman586]

Do you have free disk space :dancing:

[clarkg888]

Are the WinToolkit temp folders empty when you start? Perhaps there are leftovers from a failed dismount that need to be manually deleted.

 

Clark.

[Fragbert]

What other temp folders are used other than the one I observe created on C: ? (C:\Wintoolkit_mount)

I delete that manually and there is over 60GB of free space.

[Fragbert]

Updated to 1.4.46.1, still the same results.

 

Also took note of the temp folders created in Windows\Temp - the 7z and Imagex files all have full access permissions, and are purged after I get the error and close out. A folder in Windows\Temp does remain after; C:\Windows\Temp\WinToolkit_ImagexTemp_1CBEF69C35AD52A116BD5E2CCEC0054D

 

But that folder is empty and I delete that manually just in case. Still no dice! What in the world happened? The only recent change I have made on the rig is installing the newer version of DISM that Wintoolkit prompted me to download on 1.4.45.5. I think the last time I was able to successfully mount a WIM was before installing that. I have since uninstalled DISM, but that did not fix anything. Baffling!

[techmobile]

I'm in the same situation, Getting very frustrated with it. I've removed the latest version of Wintoolkit, no difference then remove DISM which it updated the other day. Reinstalled WTK 1.4.46.1 to a new location & moved the wintoolkit temp folder. I thought it was maybe my most recent image that was causing it so used the original untouched Win7 ISO & didnt make any changes to it, just clicked start to redo it & it still says 'Win Toolkit was unable to mount an image!' I've tried clicking on save to clipboard & text file but it says wintoolkit has stopped responding & I have to end task.  It does go through the sequence of rebuilding the image but doesn't make any changes to it. Below is what it I copied & pasted from the error log. looks the same as the log file above.

 

Starting

Output: ImageX Tool for Windows

Output: Copyright © Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.

Output: Version: 6.2.9200.16384

Output: ERROR: Unable to use specified log file.

Output: Mounting: [D:\Wintoolkit\May\sources\install.wim, 7] -> [C:\WinToolkit_Mount]...

Output: [   0% ] Mounting progress 

Output #1: [   0% ] Mounting progress 

Output #2: [   0% ] Mounting progress 

Output #3: [   0% ]

Output #4: 

Writing Status T: [   0% ] | PT: 

Done Status

Writing Taskbar

Done Taskbar

Output: Error mounting image.

Output: The system cannot find the path specified. 

Finished

Edited July 27, 2014 by techmobile

[Fragbert]

Any ideas? Glad to see I'm not alone with this issue.

[PeregrinTook]

I think the problem is DISM. It's the only variable, as everything else is constant.

 

To be precise, I think the extracted DISM that wincert.net hosts on their servers, and the one that WinToolkit references to for updates, is... botched, or corrupted in some way. For I too have these same problems, literally exactly the same; I have used WinToolkit in the past (1.4.44.4 (helluva version name lol)) and everything all worked, mostly anyways. No mounting issues like here. Just started using it again today, and the first thing I did after loading up WinToolkit was install the new version of DISM that it led me to. It's been the same story since then. 

 

I'll upload my 4 logs here, 2 from 1.4.44.4, 2 from 1.4.47.2. Differing versions of DISM were used, as well as the tool being either AIO/WIM-Manager. Hope it helps.

 

I also noticed something else when renaming the WinToolkit folder: it seemed to be in use by a (ghost?) process, and I was unable to rename it. I checked task manager; nothing out of the norm seemed to be there.

 

I might give it a try with a different version of DISM sometime later.

 

~Took

 

Edit: So I rebooted and the ghost process holding the WinToolkit folder was gone. WinToolkit is still unable to mount images though, and I've checked several temp locations too. Test version 1.5.0.15 worked though, producing an image that was corrupted and threw an error message during windows install (that said it was corrupted lol), and then failing to mount images thereafter, just like all the other builds. Have not tried a different version of DISM yet.

wintoolkit forum upload.rar

Edited September 20, 2014 by PeregrinTook

[Legolash2o]

Please let me know how another version of DISM works

 

Unable to use specified log file.

 

The system cannot find the path specified. 

 

That maybe be due to the temp folder not being available. I will add some more logging to help find the culprit.

 

EDIT: Try disabling Mount Logs in options

EDIT 2: Please try the latest test version (v1.5.0.16)

[Fragbert]

Update - same problem persists in 1.5.2.9 and with mount logs disabled.

Edited October 3, 2014 by Fragbert

[Legolash2o]

I've fixed the issue with mount logs so you can enabled it again. Do you have anything like TeamViewer or something which allows me to watch what you are doing really?

[lovs2build]

After several runs this started happening to me. Using latest version of win toolkit and DISM

Tried loading different presets, no presets, deleted folders, nothing is working. I guess you never tracked down this bug or gave up on it?

Edited October 10, 2014 by lovs2build

[Legolash2o]

it's hard to reproduce. What DISM are you using?

[lovs2build]

HI Thanks for your reply.

I am using one from your link, 8.1. I hate to give on on this as I finally got the feel of it, building addons, getting everything working good. I made 4 other test builds that installed nicely. Was in process of adding my addons I made and couple other programs for slient install, not to mention the 11 hours to intergrate 400+ updates . really hope we can figure this out.

Thanks!

[Legolash2o]

Have you tried uninstalling the one provided via the link and use the one built in with Windows?

 

I should have some time tonight to get some testing on this done

[lovs2build]

OK I will give that a try.

[lovs2build]

I went to remove it and I remembered that I installed Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit. I removed it along with DISM update and it works again. Don't know if maybe others that were having trouble might have that installed, maybe try removing it and seeing?

 

Anyways it is mounting again so I can finish my Windows 7 custome build using your great program!

Thanks again for relying and opening my eyes to other reasons why it might have stop working.

Edited October 10, 2014 by lovs2build