Windows 10: Create a WinPE USB or ISO

How to: Create a WinPE USB or ISO


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

Creating a bootable WinPE USB or ISO is fast and easy. This tutorial will show how to create one for your purposes.





WinPE [/i] 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:




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:




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:\WinPEx64




Replace path D:\WinPEx64 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:\WinPEx86

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:\WinPEx64 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:\WinPEx64 F:\WPE64.iso

You will be warned that the USB flash drive will be formatted, Accept with Y:



That's it!

Kari

:)

 

creating a boot ghost usb

Hi Freddy,

Ghost is a disk cloning and backup tool. In Windows, we can easily create a bootable USB with your cloned system.

• First, prepare the WinPE which we will use to capture the customized image by following the steps on this
  
  link.
  
• Boot into WinPE to capture the computer image you have customized. To do it, check out this
  
  link.
  
• Then, convert WIM file into ISO.
• Lastly, create the Bootable USB with your customized image.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Create a WinPE USB or ISO


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 :

Next step could be adding these sommands above to \Windows\System32\Startnet.cmd

or better WinPE: Add packages (Optional Components Reference) | Microsoft Docs

 

Multi-bootable USB

Hey guys from TPU, couldn't find any specific thread pertaining to the question asked on title. As mentioned, I'm trying to create a bootable USB, but with many specifics boots available.

I've been trying to create one with multiple boot device including one that enables me to run Windows 10 directly on the USB Thumb Drive but to no avail.

The list of bootable images i'm trying to create are

1. Windows 10 (A full OS running from thumb drive)
2. Windows 10 ISO (Bootable disk image for fresh install)
3. MemTest86+

Have tried YUMI or UUI from the website USB PenDrive Linux but as this is my first time, i don't know how am i screwing up or am doing it right.. Anyone got a rough idea on a step by step guide? Thanks!

 

Bootable USB with ISO - What am I missing?

I am trying to install win7 from a USB. I set the USB to be first boot and it finds it, but wont install the iso.

I have tried ...

However when I get to bootsect it does not do anything .. says it is not a recognized internal command ...

Is there something I am missing? I even tried just loading the iso on the USB and booting, but did not work either

Is there an easier way?

 

Bootable USB with ISO - What am I missing?

you can use pendrive with win too. in step 1 you have to select "custom iso"(or "other" cant remember how exactly it was dubed) and point win .iso file. i've used it for my install usb stick and it works fine.