[SOLVED] When selecting a windows 7 SP1 install.wim file, i get an error message: choose a valid windows edition (see sshot)

When selecting a windows 7 SP1 install.wim file, i get an error message: choose a valid windows edition (see sshot).


I'm running Win 8.1.1 ProWMC x64 (UEFi on a GPT system). Since yesterday i got this error message using Winreducer 8.1 v1.18 while opening a windows 8.1 install.wim, i began rebuilding and updating (using dism) a new build and after that reducer opened that one fine but older builds it did not. Today i wanted to build an updated windows 7 sp1 pro install.wim but now i get this error (see sshot below). I used Winreducer 7 v3.00 rc4.







The wims open just fine in windows toolkit and dism.

I only use winreducer for 4 little tweaks, 3 of them i cannot do using wim reg load on a mounted wim.

Is there no one who can tell me what is going wrong here?

Hello,

Do you have this error, before you see the available windows editions or when you choose to mount your edition ?

Thanks, Winterstorm.

Pictures say more than 1000 words:

I open wr70 and i see this:



I select "start" en "folder" and i get this:



And then i get : choose a valid windows edition.





When i click on "OK" i get this:



When i select that one, the error message comes again :S

Could you please have a look in your "sources" (in the extracted ISO folder) to tell me if you have a "install.wim" or "install.esd" file ?

Windows 7 is currently Install.wim, windows 8.1 i make esd's after completing the 4 tweaks i do using winreducer.

I just downloaded the rc5 version of winreducer 7.0 and placed it in a VMWare install of windows 7 sp1 x64 and i got the same error message as on windows 8.1 x64. Untouched win 7 sp1 source wims i can open without problems, but after integrating the updates and placing the scripts folders it won't open with winreducer.

First I integrate the updates using dism (gui), i copy my specific files to the wim, then i rebuild the wim using wintoolkit and at last i tweak and sometimes reduce (unneeded files, all with exception of the expert options) using winreducer. In case of windows 8.1 i make esd files and in case of win 7 sp1 i make sometimes swm files to keep the biggest file under 4GB for uefi fat32 use. Finally i make an iso using windows toolkit.

I've made lots of builds and this is the first time i'm having problems with it.

Strange is, 2days ago i had the same problem with 8.1 and wims i made last week. New projects i made since 2 days ago have no such problems.

I think I know what the problem is/was.

In the earlier versions with the old way to select the windows edition this never was a problem but now in the "new and improved" versions of winreducer 8.1 (for me 1.18) and 70 (for me rc4) it seems to be a problem.

I rename the windows indexes when i build, eg "Windows Pro SP1 x64 EN [OEM SLiC2.1]", this was never a problem but i tried renaming it without using the [ and ] characters and i can load the windows edition in reducer 70 v300 rc5 now. The characters ( and ) can also be used.

It seems that some characters cannot be read by the new load option in the newer reducers.

I will try this also with reducer 8.1 v1.19 for win 8.1.1.

Seems like a bug to me.

so it seems after renaming an index name winreducer get this "error".

so maybe you should first use winreducer and after that rename your wim file index.
also i want to know, you get this "error" but on the last picture the while name is shown. when you now click on MOUNT does everything work?

maybe winter can do something to prevent that .

i think it should be solved since:

WinReducer 7.0 - v3.08 (18 December 2014) :

- UPDATE : "MOUNT ISO or WIM file" : Improve mounting process