Windows 11 Home excluded?

[ebuwiz]

Tried today... Windows 11 "Pro" results in a 2,8Gb ISO...
Windows 11 "Home" retults in a 8Gb ISO and not working (not bootable ISO)

Why?

[ebuwiz]

Im going to revive this...

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150

Saving image
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Unmounting image
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.
Exporting ESD. This may take a while...

Herramienta Administración y mantenimiento de imágenes de implementación
Versión: 10.0.26100.1150

Exportando imagen
[==========================100.0%==========================]
La operación se completó correctamente.
The tiny11 image is now completed. Proceeding with the making of the ISO...
Creating ISO image...
ADK folder not found. Will be using bundled oscdimg.exe.
Downloading oscdimg.exe...
oscdimg.exe downloaded successfully.

OSCDIMG 2.56 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility
Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1993-2012. All rights reserved.
Licensed only for producing Microsoft authorized content.

Scanning source tree (1000 files in 97 directories)
Scanning source tree complete (1057 files in 103 directories)

Computing directory information complete

Image file is 7431618560 bytes (before optimization)

Writing 1057 files in 103 directories to C:\tiny11builder-44da0a4b4ab26440be5cdb09ab321b3883ced8c6\tiny11.iso

100% complete

Storage optimization saved 66 files, 15831040 bytes (1% of image)

After optimization, image file is 7418290176 bytes
Space saved because of embedding, sparseness or optimization = 15831040

Done.
Creation completed! Press any key to exit the script...

Performing Cleanup...

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Fin de la transcripción de Windows PowerShell
Hora de finalización: 20250907233825

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Steps:
1- Downloaded from Microsoft Page, in spanish of course, Spanish ISO 5,6Gb
2- Using the script on powershell administrator window
3- It finished with a 7,2Gb ISO file... 2Gb more...

[ebuwiz]

Check that @ntdevlabs

Steps:
1- Downloaded from Microsoft Page, in spanish of course, Spanish ISO 5,6Gb
2- Using the script on powershell administrator window
3- It finished with a 7,2Gb ISO file... 2Gb more...

[Miiraak]

Hi @ebuwiz !
I will take a further look this afternoon after my work, come back soon to you.

[Miiraak]

I'm back,
Did you have the full log of your run ? We're in lack of informations here, having juste one part is not really useful as informations can be somewhere else.

I don't know whats gone wrong with your run but i succeed to create and install a spanish-home-tiny11 iso.
It was 5.42Go and trimmed down to 3.92Go.

Are you sure that your script is the lastest one ? Did you use Powershell 5.1 ?

[ebuwiz]

@Miiraak This (i omitted some permission change on files cause file size of log)

1º log: https://pastebin.com/jr1YxvW1
2º log: https://pastebin.com/yeB72aiU

Name Value

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PSVersion 5.1.26100.4768
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.26100.4768
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

PS C:\Users\Loren>

[Miiraak]

Ow you use the coremaker edition. Are you sure that's what you want ?
Coremaker is not for daily uses. He create a iso for testing purpose.

[ebuwiz]

@Miiraak Its for a N150 mini server so.. yes, i need minimal changes

[Miiraak]

I've created a coremaker iso in home edition to test and compare, after looking in the tiny11.log and DISM.log, i think there is a corruption of the hive.
We can see some errors like :

...
Error: 50
DISM failed. No operation was performed.
...

I've read that using /Online parameter while in WinPE is not possible and throw this kind of errors.

We can take a look at the DISM log (The full log was really painful to read^^) this is a sample.

...
Failed to load offline \??\C:\scratchdir\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM hive from ... [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
Failed to load offline registry: ...SYSTEM [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
Failed to load offline SYSTEM hive. [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
Failed to load offline store from boot directory: ... [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
Failed to initialize store parameters with boot drive: ... [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
Cannot finalize a session that has not been initialized. [HRESULT = 0xd0000043 - NTSTATUS Error]
...
Failed while processing command cleanup-image. ... HRESULT=D0000043
...

file already in use or corrupted/inaccessible SYSTEM registry hive file ?

Or errors like :

...
Error DISM   DISM WIM Provider: ... "Could not commit changes during unmount." - CWimImage::Unmount(hr:0x80070020)
Error DISM   DISM Imaging Provider: ... CGenericImagingManager::InternalCmdUnmount(hr:0x80070020)
...

The failed DISM operations can come from concurrent image operation. Or using an hive that be badly unmounted by the system...

Im not sure that there is only one point that break the creation. Seem to me like combinaison of factors.
The rebuild of the SxS and the operations made on the iso seem not compatible with the HOME edition.
I tried with a French iso. The SKU Home generate nearly the same errors. With huge size output iso (12gb) and log (1gb).

But i think is that is way over my head. I'm not sure i can do more. Or maybe i missed something but reading throug DISM log + tiny11core.log and trying to make link between script line and errors is way too brain-consuming.

Maybe one day i'll or someone will have enough skill and time to point what's going on with the Home edition.
I would be curious to know the cause.

[Miiraak]

You can't do plenty things with the coremake iso.
I dont know what you want to do with your N150 but good luck !

[ebuwiz]

@ntdevlabs can you reopen this?12gb iso thats interesting xd

[ebuwiz]

@Miiraak try this!!!!
#430

Try with French ISO if it solves it!