winpe-installer's Introduction

WinPE-Installer

A set of scripts that produce a bootable WinPE disc capable of installing a wide variety of Windows versions/SKUs.

These scripts make a lot of assumptions about local paths that are probably wrong on your computer.

It requires many files to create the bootable disc:

Windows 11 ADK needs to be installed, along with the Windows PE add-on
Windows .isos, available from MSDN with a subscription
The latest Cumulative Updates for Windows 11, available from here
The latest Cumulative Updates for Windows Server 2022, available from here
The required Servicing Stack Updates for Windows, as noted on the individual cumulative update pages
Surface drivers, available from here
Intel Rapid Storage Drivers should be downloaded from here and extracted for better compatibility in WinPE
7-Zip needs to be installed

To produce the installer, run Setup-Drivers.ps1 followed by Setup-WinPE.ps1 from an Administrator Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment.

To copy the resulting files to a new USB key (128 GB minimum), run the following commands as an administrator:

diskpart
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n where n is the disk number of your USB key. Make sure to get this right!
CONVERT MBR This command may fail with "The specified drive is not convertible". This is fine.
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=12288
FORMAT FS=FAT32 LABEL="WINPE" QUICK
ACTIVE
ASSIGN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT FS=EXFAT LABEL="DRIVERS" QUICK
ASSIGN
EXIT

Then copy the contents onto the newly created drives with robocopy:

robocopy X:\WinPE_amd64\media Y: /MIR /FFT /DST where X: is your local drive with a generated installed and Y: is the newly created "WINPE" partition.
robocopy X:\WinPE_amd64_drivers\media Z: /MIR /FFT /DST where X: is your local drive with a generated installed and Z: is the newly created "DRIVERS" partition.

To update an existing drive, just run the two robocopy commands above.

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