Create a bootable WinPE USB drive with tools

Make USB drive bootable:

• Diskpart
• list disk
• select disk #
• Clean
• create partition primary
• select partition 1
• Active
• format quick fs=fat32 or ntfs
• Assign
• Exit

Copy WinPE files to USB drive

• Install WAIK for Windows 7
• Launch "Deployment Tools Command Promp"
• Copype x86 c:\winpe
• Copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim c:\winpe\ISO\sources\boot.win
• Xcopy c:\winpe\iso\*.* /e :\

Tools

Copy tools to the USB drive
- This is much easier than mounting the wim file on the USB stick with imageX


Using ImageX

But - if we need/want to "install" the stuff in the wim file, then...
(ImageX is part of WAIK)

• Launch "Deployment Tools Command Promp"
• Md c:\img
• Imagex /mountrw :\sources\boot.wim 1 c:\img
• Do your stuff..
• Imagex /unmount /commit c:\img