创建一个可启动的WinPE 2.0 USB Key

Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE)是非常实用的图形界面系统工具,现在的U盘容量越来越大,WinPE可以轻松地安装到U盘上并用来启动和运行.Josh's Windows Weblog提供了制作方法,一起来看.


Step 1. ) Get USB Key

You probably already have a few and if not you can purchase these just about anywhere, so I won't tell you where to get one. You should get a USB 2.0 device of at least 512mb in size, but if you plan on putting a lot into a custom PE install or plan on using it to transfer data too then you are better served getting a larger size (2.0-4.0GB)

Step 2.) Download and Install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK)

This deployment oriented tool set contains Windows PE 2.0.

Step 3.) Format the USB key



Note: This must be done from Windows Vista

Start a command prompt and run the following. This set of commands assumes your USB key is detected as disk 1, you should double check that by doing a list of the disks before cleaning it. If you have multiple hard drives you could end up wiping your second drive using this command. You have been warned.

Diskpart
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit
Step 4.) Setup Windows PE

In this step you will create and customize WinPE for your disk. From the machine that you installed the Windows AIK go to the start menu and select "Windows PE Tools Command Prompt" from under the Windows AIK program folder.
Run Copype.cmd x86 c:winpe_x86
you can create an 64-bit version by changing the architecture from x86 to amd64
Add customizations to WinPE
copy any tools you want available to the C:winpe_x86iso folder such as imaging tools if you want to use this for capturing images (imagex, wimscript.ini)
Step 5 .) Copy Windows PE to USB Key

Insert the USB key into the machine that you have WinPE on and run the following command to copy the contents to the USB Key

xcopy c:winpe_x86iso*.* /s /e /f e:

change c: to reflect the drive your files on and e: to be your USB key.