How to Create a Windows PE 3.0 CD

1. Download and Install The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7 in your Windows 7 PC. Below is the link to download a copy of the WAIK 3. Copy and paste the following link into your IE

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34&displayLang=en

2. On your Windows 7 computer, click Start, point to All Programs, Microsoft Windows AIK, right-click Deployment Tools Command Prompt and then select Run as administrator.

The menu shortcut opens a Command Prompt window and automatically sets environment variables to point to all the necessary tools. By default, all tools are installed at C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools

3. At the command prompt run

copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86

The script creates the following directory structure and copies all the necessary files for that architecture. For example,

\winpe_x86
\winpe_x86\ISO
\winpe_x86\mount

4. Copy the base image (winpe.wim) into \Winpe_x86\ISO\sources folder and rename the file to boot.wim.

copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

Is also a good idea to copy the imagex.exe to the Windows PE CD

copy “c:\program files\<version>\Tools\x86\imagex.exe” c:\winpe_x86\iso\

5. Create the iso image file of Windows PE 3.0 with Oscdimg. At a command prompt, type:

oscdimg -n -bC:\winpe_x86\etfsboot.com C:\winpe_x86\ISO C:\winpe_x86\winpe_x86.iso

6. Use your favorite iso burning software to burn the image to a cd. You can always use the iso file on a virtual machine.