So I successfully completed my first Image with Dell IA.
During the capture, I sent the WIM to a folder, on a external HDD. I successfully restored using that external HDD and a USB bootable for recovery.
Now, I want this all on one neat thumb drive and was ready to call it a day. I put the entire folder on a NTFS thumb drive I created with Dell IA USB creator. I booted from this drive and attempted to do a restore from the WIM I moved from the original external. This did not work.
I moved an entire folder, including any hidden items (there weren't any) to the thumb drive, so I didn't miss anything.
The error message is as such:
"Not a valid WIM file, please selelct another WIM file.
File was not created with this toolset. To restore a WIM/SWM file that was not created using this toolset, use DISM.EXE provided by Microsoft."
Mind you, this works perfectly fine if I pull it from the original external HDD, regardless of which thumb drive I boot into. I see no hidden files that were planted anywhere else on this external either.
I have since tried 2x thumb drives, but this made no logical sense, it was just something Dell said to try.
I'm going to re-pull the image again in an attempt to get them to the desired location, but the EXTREMLY short 30 second windows to change the default location.
I'm at a bit of a loss here and don't understand why the exact files I copied over will not work going from NTFS drive to another NTFS drive.