Questions tagged [windows-pe]
Windows PE (Pre-installation Environment) is a lightweight version of Microsoft Windows, used for deploying, installing and repairing Windows operating systems.
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Windows 10 PE Unable to map network drive anonymously
I'm trying to set up a imaging environment. The idea is to use DISM to apply WIM images (Windows 10 Pro) over the network.
I am able to boot into Windows 10 PE. I have network connectivity via DHCP. ...
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Windows Server 2008 install: wpeinit -unattend:unattend.xml does nothing
I'm trying to set up automated installations of Windows Server 2008 x64.
I have it working using a DVD and autounattend.xml on a USB key, but now I want to make it work over PXE so I don't have to ...
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How can I run a PowerShell script during the specialize pass of a WDS deploy?
I'm setting up Windows Deployment Services (WDS) for Windows Server 2012 unattended deployments using the default boot.wim file found on the install media. I have a PowerShell script that performs ...
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How can I mount an ISO Image in Windows 7 WinPE?
I have a 16GB USB flash drive that I want to set up like this:
It boots WinPE
It has useful diagnostic and system maintenance tools
There are several .ISO files of operating system install DVDs on ...
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ImageX in Windows PE is complaining that the subsystem is not present
I'm trying to use ImageX from the Windows PE command line. When I run a capture command from the console
cmd> e:\imagex.exe /capture <whatever>
I get a nasty error like
the subsystem ...
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Installing to an iSCSI target and booting it without PXE
I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2, Standard Edition and have set up an iSCSI target, which I'm wanting a client to be able to:
Connect to in such a way that I can install Windows 7.
Allow client to ...
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PXE boot windows PE from Linux
I'm attempting to get a Windows Preinstallation Environment to boot over PXE from a Linux server. The end goal will be to install Windows but that's pretty easy once I can get WinPE to start up (I've ...
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Security of BitLocker with no PIN from WinPE?
Say you have a computer with the system drive encrypted by BitLocker and you're not using a PIN so the computer will boot up unattended. What happens if an attacker boots the system up into the ...
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WinPE slow dhcp crashes LTI
Is there a good way to make a LTI installation wait for an ip address before its trying to start the installation wizard?
I currently get errors when i boot my PEimg that only says the network path ...
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DISM Can Mount Image but Can't Apply It
I am using DISM to capture a Windows image. I have successfully captured an image from the reference computer after running sysprep and booting from Windows PE. This was done manually using the DISM /...
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Error loading my BCD when trying to PXE boot to Windows PE
I'm trying to set up an ubuntu server with pxelinux, so I can boot Windows PE using PXE. On the client machine, I can see that pxelinux itself works, but the next screen is this:
Here is what I did:
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Installing drivers on a Windows system using WinPE Preinstallation Environment
How can I install an INF driver to WinPE 3.0 when it is mounted with DISM?
Once WinPE 3.0 is running, how can I install drivers, using their INF, to an offline system?
The offline system can be ...
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Run PowerShell-Script from Server in unattend.xml
Currently we are Deploying our Windows 10 Machines with Windows Deployment Services(WDS) with a unattend.xml file for basic settings. From time to time there are machines which won't activate windows ...
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Live WIM image capture?
Is there a tool that can capture a live Server WIM image? Without having to boot the server into WinPE and use imageX. A free or commercial tool would be OK.
Thanks!
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SCCM 2012 Windows PE issues
Just got some lenovo X240, i7 with touch screen..
I got two issues when trying to enter Windows PE. (PE enviroment is 8.1)
1: First of all I don't get anything in the 'image selection: .. its blank.....
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WDS updating raid drivers in an already existing image WIM
Here is my current setup.
WDS installed on Server 2008 R2 for the new driverstore and multicast features.
A Windows Server 2003 32bit Standard image built to support previous DL360 models.
A new HP ...
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Using spanned images (.swm) with ImageX /ref switch
I can't seem to find any working examples of usage of the /ref switch with ImageX. Can anyone provide known working syntax?
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SCCM Task Sequence Error 0x8007000E
Booted up a VM into the SCCM OSD WinPE, entered password, and selected a task sequence. Before any packages were downloaded, I was hit with error 8007000E. The smsts.log file reports this error, and ...
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VM freezing during WinPE boot up
Got SCVMM 2012 R2 up and running, created a single VM w/ dynamic memory (512MB-4096MB) and a 40GB dynamic disk. The host is configured for NIC Teaming using switch independent configuration.
I setup ...
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Disable Network connection in Windows PE
I am generating a WindowsPE boot stick with the Microsoft Automation Installation Kit 10 (host is Windows 10) for a amd64 target platform.
Because i dont need network connections from within the ...
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UFD with Windows PE requires HDD Drivers to see local drives
hi I'm attempting to image a machine, but after following the instuctions listed on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523217(v=ws.10).aspx I have hit a problem. The reference computer ...
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Why is my WinPE 4 image growing and growing after every commit?
I am currently building a WinPE 4 ISO and I am wondering why the ISO file keeps growing after every commit and iso build. All i am changing is some lines of powershell code, which for sure are not as ...
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Utilise Netsh Wlan in WIn PE 4.0
We have been working with unattended domain joins using SCCM 2012. We used to use a command line step in the OSD to join the machine to the local wireless network prior to domain join.
The syntax used ...
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Proper Imaging Procedures to Restore and Deploy Image with Separate System Reserved Partition
UPDATE: As per my experience here, no one responded. If I do not hear back from TechNet forum members about it, I will post a bounty here, if it makes a difference.
I have banged my head against a ...
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automatic script execution in WinPE
I'm trying to instruct my image of WinPE to directly execute a script when it finishes loading. How can I do that? Do I have to modify Winpeshl.ini or Startnet.cmd or Unattend.xml? I have tried all of ...
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WDS install modifying BCD
Situation
I am currently using WDS on a Windows Server 2012 R2 to deploy a Windows to Go disk.
The idea is to make it possible to deploy a W2G disk from any workstations, including computers with an ...
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Create IBW Disk for Windows 10
I am currently changing our OS from Windows 7 Embedded to Windows 10 IoT LTSB Enterprise 1607.
In Windows 7 Embedded we created a IBW disk using Windows Embedded Standard 7 Image configuration editor ...
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How to distribute a custom WinPE disk
I'm looking into creating a WinPE disk that runs a custom cleanup utility that can be distributed to clients.
I'm hoping to get some clarity on how companies legally distribute custom WinPE disks ...
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How do I troubleshoot "Failed to get staged packages for package" error when attempting to remove a provisioned app from an offline Windows 8.1 image?
When I attempt to remove provisioned apps from an offline Windows 8.1 image, most of the apps I want to remove cause no problem, but attempting to remove Microsoft.Office.OneNote causes an error.
The ...
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How can I use Task Scheduler from WinPE?
I need to run an exe at midnight each day.
Problem is that Task Scheduler doesn't exist on WinPE.
What can I do?
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Dell Power Edge Diags and Firmware Updates from a WinPE environment
I am looking for a way to upgrade all firmware on Dell PE servers from within a WinPe environment. We are a reseller and I already have an environment set up to transfer ownership of the servers to ...
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Configure HP RAID in Pre-OS environment
I need to set the RAID configurations of a HP machine during the provisioning process of OS deployment. I have come across a tool named Praid.exe but having read the documentation I get the impression ...
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Lightweight File Manager for use in a Windows Preinstallation Environment [closed]
I need a free (preferabally open source) lightweight file manager for Windows that can run in a stripped down Windows Preinstallation Environment. It doesn't matter if it is text-based or GUI but must ...
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WinPE 10 WIM shows 0x80004005 setup error (cannot determine language)
I have created a basic WinPE 10 boot.wim, which is deployed by PXE through WDS. Unfortunately, when it attempts to launch setup.exe the error:
Windows could not determine the language to use for ...
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Blinking Cursor when booting restored Ghost image
I create automated deployment scripts for universal workstation images and I've found something I can't work through. I'm hoping someone else has come across this before and I'm just not searching ...
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Does WinPE have a default Administrator password?
If so, what is it? And if it does not, how can I set it when configuring my WIM?
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Question about Installing Windows 7 - Unspported Device requires a Driver Disk
In a Windows 7 DVD I see two big files: boot.wim and install.wim. My assumption is that I can modify boot.wim to affect the Windows Preinstallation Environment itself. Is this assumption correct?
To ...
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SCCM Reboot at beginning of task sequence
For legacy purposes, we don't pxe boot directly from sccm but have a separate wds server that we pxe boot from, and upload sccm's boot wim (among others, again for legacy purposes) to that server.
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Can I determine which network driver was used when booting to WinPE from Ghost?
I'm trying WinPE pre OS to boot laptops for ghost 11.5, and I need to set the NIC to 100_full for compatibility with the switch. I've found how to do this by modifying the inf files but there are ...
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WinPE diskpart can't attach vdisk
I created WinPE 3.0 and didn't modify it in any way. I want to attach a vdisk (.vhd file) while running WinPE but I can't attach it, no error is shown, no indication that diskpart didn't attach it, it ...
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Remotely Installing Windows 2008 on SunBlade 6000/6250... any gotchas?
I'm preparing to remotely install Windows 2008 Standard onto a 6250 blade module mounted in a SunBlade 6000 chassis rack.
Are there any gotchas (aside from the predictable issues related to bandwidth ...
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Booting specifics on NVMe
I have a problem with transferring my OS from SATA SSD to PCIe NVMe and maybe someone can give me more ideas to solve the next problem.
The hardware is HPE MicroServer Gen8 running Windows Server 2022....
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add package to WinPE using DISM failes
I'm having trouble with adding a package to a custom WinPe file.
I try to add a package (using: dism /image:c:\temp\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\...
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WDS boot image doesnt want to start
I'am using Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2. I Have virtual machine of generation 2. My goal is to boot Windows PE boot image from WDS server using PXE.
PXE boot seems OK. WDS starts its ...
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Deploy Windows To Go on external drive using Network boot, WDS or SCCM and WinPE
We are doing a project for a IT school, each student have an external drive (WD My Passport enterprise) and we are trying to deploy Windows To Go on these drives.
Each student should be able to flash ...
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Error in Office 2010 when deploying as part of .wim?
We're deploying Windows onto PCs with a very simple VM image setup, capture, and deploy using WinPE and imagex to create a single .wim with no network dependencies or capabilities involved in the ...
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Best imaging practices (specifically sysprep to a .wim & network deployment)?
Note: As you may have seen in my other question regarding the data integrity of a .wim, I know this is a very "rigged" method of doing things. I've been the one heading up that whole area for our ...
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Finding correct driver for winPE
I need to find a network driver that will work in WinPE for a HP8300 SFF desktop deployment. The network device is an intel 82579LM.
I don't need someone to find a driver for me - I can handle that. ...
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Device imaging process Won't work first time
I'm having an issue regarding a disk imaging process.
To get the machine into it's initial state, I first run a simple DISKPART CLEAN, and then restart the machine.
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Windows 7 64-bit machine won't shutdown after installing and uninstalling WAIK to create WinPE disc
I can shut it down by not logging in which suggests a profile issue, but I'm wondering if there is a known issue. -TIA