#windows pe

作成に手間のかかる「Windows PE」を手軽に作成できるソフト「WinPe-tch Direct」のご紹介です。

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You want to boot up Windows PE (preinstall environment) with a command prompt. And you want to boot this from a USB memory stick! Why? It is good for simple editing and/or accessing system protected files. The tricky part is of course to make all this work.

Well, here is the solution.

You will need:

The Windows® (AIK) for Windows® 7 (download)

A windows 7 installation disc

A USB memory stick. 1GB is enough.

Program to mount .iso files (Virtual CloneDrive: download - its free!)

A bunch of custom .bat files (download)

Start by mounting the .iso file downloaded from "The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7" site. Wait for the autostart or start the installation manually with "StartCD.exe" located on the disc.

Start the "Windows AIK" setup. Make sure not to change the installation directory. It should install to: "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK".

After the installation is complete you can unpack your .bat files. Run the files in the right order. This creates a .iso file with your "Windows PE".

NOTE! Between the "Run 2.bat" and "Run 3.bat" you can add files to your PE installation. Info is in the .bat files!

When all the .bat files has done it's job you should mount your windows 7 installation disc. Or put it in your dvd drive if it is a real actual disc. Also make sure that your USB device is connected at this point!

Start your command prompt. Start it as administrator!

In the command prompt enter these commands:

diskpart [enter] list disk [enter]

You should now see a list. Find out which one is your USB device. Mine was number 1.

select disk 1 [enter] (replace 1 with your disc number.) clean [enter] create partition primary [enter] select partition 1 [enter] active [enter] format fs=ntfs [enter] (This will take some time.) assign [enter] exit [enter] e: [enter] (Replace e: with your drive containing the windows 7 disc.) cd boot [enter] bootsect /nt60 i: [enter] (Replace i: with your USB device.)

Exit the command prompt. Mount your "Windows PE" iso that the .bat files created. It is located at "C:\PE\winpe_x86\winpe_x86.iso".

Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 2.0 is a minimal Win32 operating system with limited services, built on the Windows Vista kernel. It is used to prepare a computer for Windows installation, to copy disk images from a network file server, and to initiate Windows Setup.

Windows PE is not designed to be the primary operating system on a computer, but is instead used as a standalone preinstallation environment and as an integral component of other setup and recovery technologies, such as Setup for Windows Vista, Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS), the Systems Management Server (SMS) Operating System (OS) Deployment Feature Pack, and the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).

Common Windows PE Scenarios

Windows PE is a modified version of the Windows operating system that is designed to support installing Windows and troubleshooting and recovering an installation that can no longer boot.

- Installing Windows Vista. Windows PE runs every time you install Windows Vista. The graphical tools that collect configuration information during the setup phase are running within Windows PE. In addition, information technology (IT) departments can customize and extend Windows PE to meet their unique deployment needs. Windows PE also provides support for servicing Windows images.

- Troubleshooting. Windows PE is useful for both automatic and manual troubleshooting. For example, if Windows Vista fails to start because of a corrupted system file, Windows PE can automatically start and launch the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). You can also manually start Windows PE to use built-in or customized troubleshooting and diagnostic tools.

- Recovery. OEMs and independent software vendors (ISVs) can use Windows PE to build customized, automated solutions for recovering and rebuilding computers running Windows Vista. For example, users can start their computers from Windows PE recovery CDs or recovery partitions to automatically reformat their hard disks and to reinstall Windows Vista with the original drivers, settings, and applications.