
My approach to exploring my interest in Windows Deployment has always been to learn from the ground up, hence I wanted to familiarise myself with these WAIK tools to begin with. MakeWinPEMedia /iso /f C:\Tmp C:\Tmp\WinPE50_DualBoot.Having familiarised myself with building answer files and sysprep’ing reference machines I’ve recently been experimenting with WinPE, ImageX and DISM to acquaint myself with these tools as well. If you want to create a bootable ISO, run the following command (the /f forces to overwrite if the ISO already exist, not required, but good to know about):.
Copy the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_x86\fwfiles folder to C:\Tmp.Rename the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined folder to C:\Tmp\Media (the MakeWinPEMedia.cmd is hardcoded to look for a folder named media).In this example my guid was bootmenupolicy Make a note of the guid (copy it), you need it in the next step.The guid for the x86 boot image displayed. Still in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment Command prompt run the following command to find out the guid for the x86 boot image:īcdedit /store C:TmpWinPE50_CombinedBootBCD /enum | find "osdevice".
The C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined\Sources folder after adding the x86 and 圆4 boot images.
In the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined\Sources folder, rename boot.wim to boot_圆4.wim. Navigate to the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_圆4\media\sources folder and copy the boot.wim file to the C:\Tm\pWinPE50_Combined\Sources folder. Still in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment Command prompt run the following command:. In the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined\Sources folder, rename boot.wim to boot_x86.wim. Navigate to the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_x86media folder and copy the content to the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined folder. Using File Explorer, create the C:\Tmp\WinPE50_Combined folder. In the Command prompt that appears, run the following command:. On the machine with Windows ADK 8.1 installed, from the Start screen, launch Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment. Modify the BCD entry to contain both boot images. Then creating the dual-boot boot image is quite straightforward and consists of the following steps: To create the boot image you need to have Windows ADK 8.1 installed. Create a WinPE 5.0 boot image that has both x86 and 圆4 versions – Step-by-Step guide Meaning, you can also use this guide for custom boot images that you build, even without MDT. My first thought was to respond and say: No problem just check the x86 and 圆4 options in the MDT Media and it will build a dual-boot image for you, but then I thought I should also describe what MDT actually does in the background. Earlier this afternoon I got a question in my YouTube channel, where a fellow deployment geek wanted to know if it was possible to create a WinPE image that had support for both x86 and 圆4 boot images.