Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Kyhi said:

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Just tested mounting boot.wim to X:\ Partition
Not supported - can not mount to the root drive - has to be folder

Although when using "Program" folder from Host OS - no need to zip - just copy "program" folder into mounted PE Image
then commit

Thanks - I actually worked out you could copy instead of zipping (just tried it for luck).

I am wondering if you could possibly mount the boot.wim to a directory, then map another drive letter so the mount directory becomes the 'root drive'. Still, it only takes a few seconds extra to do it the way I worked out, so probably not worth the hassle.

Any idea how to print from winpe?

cereberus said:

Thanks - I actually worked out you could copy instead of zipping (just tried it for luck).

I am wondering if you could possibly mount the boot.wim to a directory, then map another drive letter so the mount directory becomes the 'root drive'. Still, it only takes a few seconds extra to do it the way I worked out, so probably not worth the hassle.

Any idea how to print from winpe?

You would have to add print drivers..

Mike,
adding Chrome is a little more Involved....
CCleaner not an issue - same program - just have to add serial key to PE registry
MalwareBytes - same program - just have to add serial key to PE registry

Non-Portable Apps - are a little harder to add to PE - because of other system file dependencies...

Although one could QuickTest the non-portable app in PE by running the app installer within PE
If it crashes - then you have to find out why and what is missing to make the program run correctly..

lx07 said:

Perhaps another thread for this? How to change Khyi's PE disk

Anyway from what I can figure out (silence - I kill you) creating a shortcut isn't enough. I tried it (adding them to Public or Default desktop) and it didn't work.

What you can do though (after changing the programs) is update F:\mount\Windows\system32\Win10PE.cfg to add the new shortcuts (and remove the old ones).

I've no idea of the structure of this file or what it does exactly (except it seems to run when the image boots up) but copying the structure of what is there seems to work. For example if you want to change "FireFox" to "Palemoon" just search/replace.

If you don't want CCleaner delete all references to it.

If you want to add a new program add the lines

Code:

HD Tasks\MBR|Whatever|X:\Program Files\Whatever\Whatever.exe||    
Desktop|Whatever|X:\Program Files\Whatever\Whatever.exe||

As long as the program is portable it seems to work.

As for printing I don't own one and still go to the internet café if I really have to print or fax something so I can't help with that. Load your Wi-Fi or Printer driver I suppose.

Code:

Add-WindowsDriver -Path "F:\mount" -Driver "<directory containing the inf files>" -recurse

Set your timezone if you like

Code:

& (gcm "dism.exe") @("/image:F\mount",'/Set-TimeZone:Romance Standard Time')

and there you are - his PE disk as you like it :)

I did try for a long time to make my own from scratch but it was all to complicated for me. I couldn't get any type of GUI to work - only a limited file explorer.

Much easier to tweek an existing one so it is as you like it (there is a lot of background work done here I think).

I found all you have to do is create the shortcut on the PEversion in normal way (right click desktop etc), and create a shortcut on desktop. This then has the drives set to X directory.

Then you do same as kyhi says, but additionally copy the shortcut to the users\default\desktop folder on the mounted drive, and then when the boot.wim is updated, the shortcut just appears on the desktop along with all the ones set up by kyhi.

Perhaps not as tidy as editing the .cfg folder but very easy to do.

I created a couple of shortcuts for notepad and wordpad (wordpad is good for editing linux txt files without the lf/cr format of windows text files).

So how I copy stuff from my source OS is as follows (obviously really only portable apps).

1) copy folders from program files for PE version (X drive)

2) create desktop shortcut in normal way (right click on desktop)

3) copy boot.wim to a another drive etc as per kyhi post.

4) copy app folder to the mounted folders as well.

5) copy shortcut to desktop in mounted folders as stated above

6) dismount folders and copy boot.wim back to usb drive

7) make iso of usb drive for future use.

see

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for my customised version.

I have even got a partial workaround for printing stuff ie create a pdf file, and copy it to my raspberry pi which is set up as a google cloud printer server (I've added putty to my disk).

I agree a new sticky thread on this might be a good idea.

But you gotta make me laugh...

You did all that..
But you can't click the picture icon on the POST toolbar - to attach a picture..

LOL

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Sorry.. Just had to do it...
sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to figure out..
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you can export the wifi profile and add it is an .xml file into the penetwork folder..

but 95% of the time - it does not work anyway..

so you still have to manually select, network adapter and password..