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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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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 in transferring the ISO, etc.) for this? Has…
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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 just doesn't happen. These are the steps that I…
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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 put it another way... Instead of providing a…
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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
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How to "Offline" a Disk using Windows PE/Recovery Enviroment?

The Disk Management MMC snapin has a "Offline" function: Once used, a disk shows as Offline, with hover text "This disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator". However, if the OS does not boot due to the contents of the disk this…
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Windows - multiple concurrent unattended installations

Distribution Server and Software: Debian 8 TFTP Server SAMBA Server DHCP Server Right now we use following way for windows (2012) distribution to our servers: installation task inkomming edit dhcp server (new server) auto create wim boot image…
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Dell E7470 Imaging in Windows PE and Acronis

Our India office has received a shipment of Dell Latitude E7470 laptops. Our technician there is having issues imaging this laptop when attempting to use Acronis True Image (2015) as well in Win PE (Version 3 I believe for Windows 7 SP1). The…
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Windows PE: Powershell is not installed & error 0x80070002

Trying to run a task sequence. In the last step, I'm trying to run a powershell-script to install various IIS-features. At this step the task sequence terminates with an error (can't remember error code atm). In the smstslog it said that "Powershell…
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Windows Image Deployment - WinPE - Execute Command After Server Image Deployment but Before WinPE Reboot

Simplified version: Execute command in WinPE after server image deployment but before WinPE reboots. Previous title: Windows Image Deployment - WinPE - Move Dynamically Generated XML via HTA to Windows Server I have a custom ISO with a boot.wim and…
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Deploying iSCSI Diskless Clients via WDS

I am trying to install Windows 7 to iSCSI targets that will be booted by diskless clients via iPXE. To do this, I need to setup .wim boot and install images in WDS. Is there a way to create standard Windows 7 .wim images, rather than WinPE images?
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Is there a way in winPE to continue booting from local hdd?

In a lot of linux distro installers or livecd there is an option to continue booting from local or another media device without rebooting the system. I can not find anything like that for winpe 5.1. My goal is to install winpe onto the harddrive and…
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UltraVNC intigration with MDT

I'm trying to get UltraVNC integrated with WinPE to allow remote control over deployments in MDT 2012. These are the steps I've taken so far. Extracted winvnc.exe, vnchooks.dll to a directory that will place them into %SystemRoot%\System32 on…
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WDS Unattended File (Language and WDS Authentication)

I want to be able to automate the initial language selection and WDS auth credentials. I am guessing I can't set that in an answer file to be provided by WDS? How can I achieve this?
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Make a bootable WinPE

My question is not exactly what the subject suggests.. I got a couple of files that I believe are WinPE files + a .WIM image.. Here is the folder tree: The OS12.wim file is 5-GB in size. Inside the boot folder there's a BCD and BOOT.SDI…
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Why won't my Windows PE RAM Disk (CD-ROM) boot?

I created a Windows PE RAM disk (CD-ROM) from the instructions on technet. I'm on a Windows 7 x64 system and my "reference" system is the same. I changed the boot priority to CD-ROM first on the reference system, but it comes up with an error…
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