Wimboot Won't Load System Image Recovery from Windows Repair

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The file it can't open is bmrui.exe, which is the System Image Recovery part of the Recovery disk. Trying to launch that is what throws the error. I don't have a link out to MSDN since you need a login to access it, but you can produce the same recovery image on Windows - you just have to burn it to a DVD first. It's just the standard Windows 7 recovery disk. It's weirdest of all because you can DIR the System32 folder and see all the files. You can even launch CMD (obviously) and regedit and all the other exe files in there, just not bmrui.exe. I know it just sounds like an image problem but I've tried WIMs from multiple clean downloads. I feel like something crazy just happened and I think I'm going to rebuild everything and start over.

Bmrui.exe should be in any Windows disk, so if you have any set up for wimboot, you can try it in your config and see if it launches.