Make your own windows PE

[gosh]

Recently some guy made a tool to make your own windows PE.  Now this is all fine and good for newbies, but in my opinion you don't need a tool to make windows PE.  Below are instructions to make your own windows PE, all you need is a xp home or pro cd.  Unlike the tool made by that person, i edited the mkimg.cmd file to disable version checking http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

Instructions on how to make your own windows PE image:

Let's assume your going to use drive F to do everything and drive F has at least 1 gig free. Let's also assume your cdrom is drive H.

1 - Download I'm a pirate, Argh Matey!
2 - Extract winpe.rar to F, this should make F:\winpe which has 12 files, no subfolders!
3 - Put in your XP home or pro CD (preferably nonsp1).
4 - Go to start > run > type: cmd, click OK
5 - Switch to F:\winpe
6 - Type the following command:

mkimg H: f:\temp f:\winpe.iso

where:

H: is your cdrom containing your xp cd
f:\temp is a temporary folder (its made if it doesnt exist)
f:\winpe.iso is the cdimage thats made (this is optional).

Now that's very easy, isn't it.  I didn't make this, it's a part of the OEM Preinstallation kit.  Anyone with this kit can make windows pe.  If you want to change the default wallpaper, replace winpe.bmp.  If you want no wallpaper, just delete it.

-gosh

[krazykulguy]

that rar file is crupted. is there other places to get those files?

[Anon]

Hi gosh, I pmed you about this but maybe you didn't get it. Could you post a working link to the file you mention above? Or check your PM. Thanks.

[Guest]

download here http://msk.nestor.minsk.by/kg/download/WinPE.rar

because i'm banned..... here in forum...


god bless all... hope your happy now...

by: zeo101

[Did I screw up?]

Tried both file versions above with tested good XP Pro Corp (FCKGWetc), factory CD of XP Pro Trial, and factory CD2003 Server Trial on known good system with no hardware problems.
\"Cannot find setupreg.hiv\" on any of them.
Suggestions please.

[Jono]

no u not screw up you need to make all the folder so it not read only then try again, took me ages to work out lol

[Guest]

I do unset the read-only on the files but I still received the same message:

\"Failed to copy setupreg.hiv file from CD\"

Does it a problem for me to use win2k as the plateform?

Pls suggest it

[neldog2]

There is no problem with having windows 2000 installed to create the image.  I did it.  You still have to have an XP cd in the drive though. I downloaded an image of the 2003 Server OPK and copied its WinPe folder.  It will work with XP Gold or XP with SP1 and Windows 2003 Server.  You need to specify the destination folder to be different than the folder you put the WinPE files in.

[lexx]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'May 28 2003, 03:13 PM\']I do unset the read-only on the files but I still received the same message:

"Failed to copy setupreg.hiv file from CD"

Does it a problem for me to use win2k as the plateform?

Pls suggest it[/quote]
 attrib [drive letter:]\winpe\*.* -r -a -s -h

[Guest]

In the WinPE (XP SP1), tool I know that is useful is Diskpart.

what's else tool that would be useful within WinPE??

[Did I screw up?]

MANY thanks to Jono and lexx for the advice !   http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />
It worked like a charm on my Win2K box.

[sobac]

I tried it with Trial Corporate and Trial Server 2003 (good use for those trial CDs) and it worked.

[royalbox]

I got it to work in the end but when it loads I get this message:

failed to install network adapter check winbom

Any idea how I can get rid of that? I don't need a network.

Also, when building the temp folder, are any settings taken from the installation you're working from? Any reg settings etc?

[royalbox]

At the end of building the winpe directory, the command prompt displays:

1097 files were copied from 1113 files
failed to copy all the required files for winPE

I assume this is because I'm using home edition. Is this the reason for my failed to install network adapter check winbom error do you think? Would these be mainly network files that are missing?

[gosh]

The winpe build files i uploaded are for Windows XP Pro with service pack 1 integrated (slipstreamed).  However i edited the version check so you can use any version of windows xp / server 2003.  Just make sure the cd isn't one of those \"all in one cd\" cd's.  It should work fine for other versions of xp/server 2003 but it isn't tested.  In testing i used xp home and xp pro without a problem.  It's kinda funny because the winpe build files have a setupreg.hiv, so if u use an xp home cd, the winpe it makes is branded as pro because of the setupreg.hiv.

-gosh

[royalbox]

Gosh,
Any idea how to get rid of that error message or to disable network trying to load? My xp home sp1 cd is oem by the way.
Thanks.

[royalbox]

Found out that the problem is with the STARTNET.CMD file.

I have these lines in it:

regsvr32 /s netcfgx.dll
factory -minint
netcfg -v -winpe
net start dhcp
net start nla
a:\floppy.cmd

@gosh
Did you put any of these in or are they the standard settings?

If anyone can explain to this newbie what they are for and whether any are necessary, I would be pleased. I deleted the lot and the CD seemed to boot fine. There was no XP splash screen so I assume one of these commands is for that. I would have thought the 2nd one. I can't understand the last line which seemes to want to read a file from a floppy.

Many thanks.

[tox]

i have tried to contruct this using the 6n1 by michael au-yeung and it worked fine. also, i've tried it using the msdn distribution cd bt encountered the \"failed to copy setupreg.hiv\" error.

already tried to set the access modifications using the security tab and \"attrib -r -h -s\" on the files copied from the cd. but there seems to be no work around on the original microsoft distribution cd's. has anyone found a way around this?