Windows PE Arch. Wiki. Windows PE is a lightweight version of Windows intended to be used for installation of Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, as well as for system maintenance. It runs entirely from memory and can be booted from the network. This page describes how customized Windows PE images can be created, and optionally published on the network, using only free software packages on an Arch Linux machine along with Microsofts Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK. The WAIK can be downloaded at no cost and is only needed to extract the boot. Windows PE, along with a couple boot files. Warning If you boot Windows PE on a physical computer, you are placing Microsofts closed source code in control of that computer. You do so at your own risk. Learn how to create a bootable Windows PE 3. USB. Create a bootable Windows PE 3. USB drive with rescue tools Part 1. ISOsourcesboot. wim. Windows Xpe Usb Wim Iso' title='Windows Xpe Usb Wim Iso' />Windows Xpe Usb Wim IsolationThe disk was built IAW windows PE 3. ISOsourcesboot. wim. Microsoft Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2. CD after you create it. ISO 9660compliant CDburning software. Learn how to deploy your Windows Embedded 8 Standard Standard 8 image using a WIM and Image Builder Wizard IBW. Win8PEXPE. ISOVDM Windows USB. ISO WIN7PE. WIM ISO. In addition, by downloading the Windows Automated Installation Kit, you may be bound by its license, which prevents you from, among other things, using Windows PE as a general purpose operating system. Use cases. Normally, an image of Windows PE can only be created using the Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK on a Windows machine. However, it is also possible to create and modify images of Windows PE using an Arch Linux machine, and optionally publish them on the network for PXE booting. No Windows machine is necessary. You may want to do this if. Windows from the network, or boot Windows PE from the network for system administration, using an Arch Linux based server. This may be because you do not have a Windows based server, or you prefer using a Linux server because of its improved security and configurability, or you are already using a Linux server for other purposes. Windows environment to run Win. Windows machine available, and you do not want to use Wine or the programs will not run correctly with Wine. Creating a bootable Windows PE image. Wikipedia http Distrowatch Size mebibytes 7002048 Last Stable Version 4 Last Release 20120731. The WAIK can be downloaded at no cost and is only needed to extract the boot. Make the bootable Windows PE ISO. Installing Windows from Windows PE. Install wimlib from the AUR. Configure the Windows PE image. To boot into a command prompt, create a startup script, which will be included into the bootable image in the next step. The mkwinpeimg script supports making further modifications to Windows PE using overlay option. Backup Deluxe Jovanotti more. See the manual page for mkwinpeimg for more information. You may want to do this to add additional Windows applications that you want to run in Windows PE, or to add any additional drivers that Windows PE needs drivers can be loaded using the drvload command within Windows PE. Make the bootable Windows PE ISOmkwinpeimg can create a bootable Windows PE ISO from either Windows installation image disk for Windows 7 or later or from Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK image. In order to get Windows PE 4. Windows 8 and later versions. Earlier versions of Windows PE can be obtained from standalone WAIK distribution from Microsoft. Since Windows 8, WAIK has been renamed to WADK and is distributed via adksetup. The installation media iso files are avaiable for MSDN subscribers, but you can download otherwhere and compare the hash value with the those published on MSDN. Different versions of Windows installation media contains different versions of Windows PE. For the relationship between Windows versions and Windows PE versions, refer to Wikipedia. Tip It may be possible to use httpfs to avoid downloading the entire image file. Windows PE occupies only around 1. MB of the image. Mount the source ISO, either Windows installation image or WAIKWADK, named winimg. Use the mkwinpeimg script provided with wimlib to create a bootable Windows PE ISO winpe. Windows Xpe Usb Wim Iso 14001Option A source image is Windows installation media. Option B source image is WAIKWADK. See the man mkwinpeimg for more information. Unmount the source ISO. Booting Windows PEAfter creating a bootable ISO of Windows PE winpe. Windows PE in the following ways. In virtual machine. Run a virtual machine with winpe. CD ROM. Be sure to give it adequate memory, definitely more than the size of the ISO, since Windows PE runs from memory. See Category Hypervisors for a list of available virtualization software. From CDSimply burnwinpe. CD, and you can boot from it. From Network. This article or section is a candidate for merging with PXE. Notes The PXE article already describes most of this stuff, no need for duplication. Also rc. d Just make sure that configuration file is not lost if its necessary for windows. Besides that everything is dupe. Discuss in Talk Windows PEWindows PE can be booted from the network using PXELINUX and its MEMDISK module on BIOS systems. For UEFI systems, wimboot and i. PXE can be used. Install syslinux and tftp hpa. Copy needed PXELINUX files to the TFTP server root directory. Put winpe. iso in the TFTP server root directory. Create a configuration filebroken link invalid section for PXELINUX similar to the following. UI menu. c. 32. MENU TITLE Network Boot. LABEL winpe. MENU LABEL Boot Windows PE from network. KERNEL memdisk. Learn how to create a bootable Windows PE CD or USB flash drive. First create a WinPE boot image. ISO directory. Copy cwinpex86winpe. ISOsourcesboot. wim. Now. Create a bootable Windows PE 3. USB drive with rescue tools Part 2. By Michael Pietroforte. Boot into RAM with Windows PE. Windows XP Embedded. The RAMDisk boot functionality allows the NTLDR to load any compatible ISO image of Windows PE into RAM. INITRD winpe. iso. APPEND iso raw. LABEL localboot. MENU LABEL Boot from local disk. Start the TFTP server. Configure your DHCP server such as Dhcpd or Dnsmasq to point to pxelinux. Windows Xpe Usb Wim Iso' title='Windows Xpe Usb Wim Iso' />Linux servers IP address. Beware if your DHCP server is on a router, it may not be possible to do this without installing custom firmware. After completing the above steps, you should be able to boot Windows PE from the network. Note With the given PXELINUX configuration file, Windows PE will start by default after 5 seconds. Tip TFTP is not designed to be used to transfer large files, such as winpe. MB or more and take about 3. Performance may be improved by using the gpxelinux. HTTP rather than TFTP. Installing Windows from Windows PEOnce booted into Windows PE, you can install Windows from an installation media. The installation media can be a network share Samba. See Samba for seting up a Samba server on another machine on the LAN. To share the installation image mounted at mediawinimg, add the following share definition to etcsambasmb. Once booted into Windows PE command prompt, run the following command to initialize the network interface, obtain the IP of the Samba server assuming Windows PE was booted over PXE from a machine that runs the DHCP, TFTP, and Samba server, the server IP will usually be the Gateway IP, mount the share, and launch the GUI setup. I IP. ADDRESS. OF. SAMBA. SERVERREMINST.