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    Create a WinPE USB or ISO

    How to create a Windows Preinstallation Environment bootable USB flash drive or ISO image
    Published by Category: Installation & Upgrade
    07 Nov 2020
    Designer Media Ltd

    information   Information
    Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) boot device belongs to every geeks toolbox. A quote from Wikipedia:

    WinPE was originally intended to be used only as a pre-installation platform for deploying Microsoft Windows operating systems, specifically to replace DOS in this respect. WinPE has the following uses:
    • Deployment of workstations and servers in large corporations as well as pre-installation by system builders of workstations and servers to be sold to end users.
    • Recovery platform to run 32-bit or 64-bit recovery tools such as Winternals ERD Commander or Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
    • Platform for running third-party 32-bit or 64-bit disk cloning utilities.
    Creating a bootable WinPE USB or ISO is fast and easy. This tutorial will show how to create one for your purposes.





    WinPE

     Create bootable WinPE USB or ISO


    1) Download latest Windows 10 ADK (Assessment and Deployment Kit) or Windows Insider Preview ADK

    2) You may of course install the full 7 GB ADK, but for our purposes you only need components Deployment Tools and Windows Preinstallation Environment:
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image.png

    3) When installed, open Deployment and Imaging Tools interface elevated by right clicking it in Start > W > Windows Kits and select More > Run as administrator:
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image.png

    4) The prompt is quite long. Shorten it by jumping to root of the C: drive with command cd \ (#1 in next screenshot)

    5) Create WinPE files with following command (#2):

    copype amd64 D:\WPEx64
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image.png

    Replace path D:\WPEx64 with your preferred drive and folder name. The above command creates PE files to be used to boot a 64 bit machine. If you will make PE for 32 bit machine, replace amd64 in command with x86:

    copype x86 D:\WPEx86

    6) Plug in a USB flash drive, note its drive letter. Enter following command, replopacing path D:\WinPEx64 with actual pathe to folder where you created the PE files, and drive letter I: with actual drive letter of your USB drive:

    MakeWinPEMedia /UFD D:\WPEx64 I:

    If you want to create a WinPE ISO, change the /UFD switch to /ISO and add path and filename where you want to create the ISO file:

    MakeWinPEMedia /ISO D:\WPEx64 F:\WPE64.iso

    You will be warned that the USB flash drive will be formatted, Accept with Y:
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image.png

    That's it!

    Kari



  1. Posts : 65
    Win10
       #1

    What to expect


    Hi,

    Please excuse basic query, I have never used this before. Anyhow I prepared the bootable usb and when I tried it I get a box with X:\windows\system32> command prompt showing. Is this right?

    I am attempting to follow the Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase "Restoring a UEFI/GPT System image to MBR" where it says Open a Windows command window. To open a command window click the icon [C:\] on the taskbar.

    I dont seem to have a taskbar, but seem to be at a command prompt already. Confused....
    Last edited by keithjr; 22 Aug 2018 at 11:10.
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  2. Posts : 317
    Microsoft Windows 10 x64
       #2

    bonjour,

    Thanks Kari for this tuto

    I created the ISO with "MakeWinPEMedia /ISO D:\WinPEx64 F:\WPE64.iso"
    I simply copied all files of the ISO to a dedicated partition (2GB) on a second disk
    I can now select & boot directly from the BIOS to this partition (F8 on Asus) without doing anything else

    My only issue : Anyway to automatically select a default keyboard different that operating system language ?
    (French Keyboard with US Windows)

    some info Wpeutil Command-Line Options | Microsoft Docs

    This works :

    wpeutil SetKeyboardLayout 040C:0000040C
    It will affect all other programs run hereafter.

    Another cmd window (with the new keyboard layout) can be opened with:
    start cmd
    (Dont’t close the initial cmd window. That will make Windows PE restart)
    Next step could be adding these sommands above to \Windows\System32\Startnet.cmd

    or better WinPE: Add packages (Optional Components Reference) | Microsoft Docs
    Last edited by D4ni3l; 14 Sep 2018 at 15:04.
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  3. Posts : 6
    win7x64
       #3

    and how to create for win 7 ?
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  4. Posts : 1
    win10
       #4

    hello forum.

    i've allready made 'my' w10pe sometime ago only for dism capture purposes.
    now, i need to add cleanmgr 'DiskCleanUp' to wpe.
    like other apps, i've copied the .exe, .mui and the .mun to their respective folders.
    i've Add-Package WinPE_OCs\WinPE-WMI.cab to the wpe.
    but can't get cleanmgr 'Clean Manager / Disk Cleanup' to work.

    any help please?
    thank you.
    best regards, l.a.
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  5. Posts : 920
    Windows 10 Pro
       #5

    Hi Kari, any chance you have played around with the Windows Image Configuration tool supplied in the Windows Kits?
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image01.png

    It appears to be a front end for unattended/ custom image setup, or am I wrong?
    Create a WinPE USB or ISO-image02.png
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  6. Posts : 97
    Win10 Pro, Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1706) (14.06.2022)
       #6

    I tried this tutorial with one driver addition:
    I added the network driver for my brand new HP ProDesk 600 G5 MT.
    But whatever I try, this driver files "e1d68x64" (for a l219 network ethernet device) will not be recognized/applied using the WinPE.
    Every software running on top of such a WinPE can't connect to anything on the same network.

    What do I have to consider if my device need some newer driver then already existing in the ADK?
    Do you know a working way how I can get a WinPE up and running WITH a network connection for my new PC?
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  7. Posts : 526
    Windows 10 (22H2)
       #7

    why are there no replies to all the above user questions?
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  8. Posts : 15,426
    Windows10
       #8

    MourningStar said:
    why are there no replies to all the above user questions?
    People will answer IF THEY CAN.
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  9. Posts : 15,426
    Windows10
       #9

    WTenNewbie said:
    I tried this tutorial with one driver addition:
    I added the network driver for my brand new HP ProDesk 600 G5 MT.
    But whatever I try, this driver files "e1d68x64" (for a l219 network ethernet device) will not be recognized/applied using the WinPE.
    Every software running on top of such a WinPE can't connect to anything on the same network.

    What do I have to consider if my device need some newer driver then already existing in the ADK?
    Do you know a working way how I can get a WinPE up and running WITH a network connection for my new PC?
    Win10XPE - Build Your Own Rescue Media
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