DISMTools tries to overcome this complexity friction by providing an accessible front-end that streamlines the management of Windows Imaging (WIM) files and related tasks.

5. Mount the .wim file on the remote recovery partition 6. Extract the drivers 7. Dismount the remote recovery .wim file Seems easy. I'm suspicious that I'm not using the correct dism commands.

Windows Recovery Environment uses the Winre.wim file. If there is no separate Recovery Environment, this file exists on your C drive.

Corrupted Boot File: The Windows Image File (WIM), containing the OS image and other components necessary for booting and installing the OS, is stored in the boot.wim file.