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Remove-WindowsImage



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Remove-WindowsImage', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.

SYNOPSIS

Deletes the specified volume image from a WIM file that has multiple volume images.

SYNTAX


Remove-WindowsImage [-CheckIntegrity] [-LogLevel <LogLevel>] [-LogPath <String>] [-ScratchDirectory <String>] -ImagePath <String> -Index <UInt32> [<CommonParameters>]
Remove-WindowsImage [-CheckIntegrity] [-LogLevel <LogLevel>] [-LogPath <String>] [-ScratchDirectory <String>] -ImagePath <String> -Name <String> [<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Remove-WindowsImage cmdlet deletes the specified volume image from a WIM file that has multiple volume images. This cmdlet deletes only the metadata entries and XML
entries. It does not delete the stream data and does not optimize the WIM file.


This command-line option does not apply to virtual hard disk (VHD) files.



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RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=273952
Add-WindowsImage
Dismount-WindowsImage
Expand-WindowsImage
Export-WindowsImage
Get-WindowsImage
Mount-WindowsImage
New-WindowsImage
Repair-WindowsImage
Save-WindowsImage
Split-WindowsImage

REMARKS

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Examples


Example 1

PS C:\>Remove-WindowsImage -ImagePath c:\imagestore\custom.wim -Index 1 -CheckIntegrity



This command removes the first image in c:\imagestore\custom.wim.






Example 2

PS C:\>Remove-WindowsImage -ImagePath c:\imagestore\custom.wim -Name "Starter" -CheckIntegrity



This command removes the image named Starter that is located in c:\imagestore\custom.wim.