Create a Bootable Windows PE USB Flash Disk

Step 1: Set up a Windows PE build environment

In this step, you create a required directory structure that supports building a Windows PE image.

1. On your technician computer, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Windows OPK or Windows AIK, right-click Deployment Tools Command Prompt, and then select Run as administrator.
   
   The menu shortcut opens a command-prompt window and automatically sets environment variables to point to all of the necessary tools. By default, all tools are installed at C:\Program Files\<kit>\Tools, where <kit> can be Windows OPK or Windows AIK.
2. At the command prompt, run the Copype.cmd script. The script requires two arguments: hardware architecture and destination location.
   
   
   copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86

3.      Running the script creates the following directory structure and copies all of the necessary files for that architecture. For example,

\Winpe_x86

\Winpe_x86\ISO

\Winpe_x86\Mount

4.      Copy the base image (Winpe.wim) into the \Winpe_x86\ISO\sources folder, and rename the file to Boot.wim.

5.      copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

Step 2: Add additional customizations

This step is optional but recommended.
You can use ImageX to add applications and scripts to your Windows PE image that you might need while working in Windows PE. ImageX is a tool for capturing and applying images during deployment scenarios. For example, type the following command to copy the ImageX tool to the Windows PE image.

copy "c:\program files\<version>\Tools\x86\ImageX.exe" c:\winpe_x86\iso\

Step 3: Prepare the UFD

Before you can place Windows PE on a UFD, you must format the UFD using the version of DiskPart from Microsoft Vista, Windows 7 or Windows PE 2.0 or higher.

1.      From a running valid operating system or Windows PE session, insert your UFD.

2.      At a command prompt, use Diskpart to format the UFD as FAT32 spanning the entire UFD, and set the partition as active. For example,

3. diskpart

4. select disk 1 (usb disk number)

5. clean

6. create partition primary

7. select partition 1

8. active

9. format quick fs=fat32

10.   assign

exit

above commands are also use for creating bootable usb disk for windows 7,windows8 and server 2008 etc also just run above mentioned and copy setup file to usb disk

·  The example above assumes Disk 1 is the UFD.

·  On your technician computer, copy all of the content in the \ISO directory onto your UFD. You can manually create the directory structure or use the xcopy command to automatically build and to copy the appropriate files from your technician computer to your UFD. For example,

xcopy C:\winpe_x86\iso\*.* /e F:\

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