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Create Bootable USB PE Media Device for Windows 8
Creating a USB stick with the Windows PE environment that is supplied as part of the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Kit is very simple--here's what you need to do.
John Savill
March 17, 2013
1 Min Read
Q: How can I create a USB stick with the new version of Windows PE installed on it?
A: To create a USB stick with the Windows PE environment that's part of the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Kit is very simple. First, make sure you have installed the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Kit.
Then launch the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment, which is a command prompt with all the deployment tools available. In the example below, I use the folder d:PEBuild as my build staging area. Run the commands below in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment window:
Populate the staging area with the 64-bit version of Windows PE:
copype amd64 d:PEBuildMount the boot.wim copied to out staging area under the mount sub-folder of the PEBuild area:
dism /mount-image /imagefile:d:PEBuildmediasourcesboot.wim /index:1 /mountdir:d:PEBuildmountAdd the WMI package to the PE environment:
Dism /image:d:pebuildmount /add-package /packagepath:"C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits8.0Assessment and Deployment KitWindows Preinstallation Environmentamd64WinPE_OCswinpe-wmi.cab"Dism /image:d:pebuildmount /add-package /packagepath:"C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits8.0Assessment and Deployment KitWindows Preinstallation Environmentamd64WinPE_OCsen-uswinpe-wmi_en-us.cab"Copy the DISM set of tools to the Windows PE environment and the bcdboot tools:
xcopy /s "C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits8.0Assessment and Deployment KitDeployment Toolsamd64DISM" d:pebuildmountDISMxcopy /s "C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits8.0Assessment and Deployment KitDeployment Toolsamd64bcdboot" d:pebuildmountbcdbootUnmount the image commiting the changes:
Dism /unmount-image /mountdir:D:PEBuildmount /commitCreate a USB media connected to I: from our PE staging area:
Makewinpemedia /ufd d:PEbuild I:
You now have a bootable Windows PE USB stick.
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