Making Windows PE disk

Take a look here:
System Repair Disc - Create

You can't do it with 64 bit pe.

Virtually nothing useful will run in it.

You can do it with 32 bit pe. You will get of great apps. working in that.

The pe you are using is independent of the o/s you have installed.

As long as the programs you install in 32 bit pe are meant to operate on win7 , they will work fine when run from there - you can us them to image , restore, partition , etc your 64 bit installed o/s.

It works fine from my 32 bit pe3 media:



Acronis is trickier to get going than many others - Paragon and Macrium apps. are easy to include and work beautifully.

Similar , Greg - but I have a lot more going on in that one.

Unless you are familiar with mounting wims, adding a shell, loading the hives and inserting registry entries - you will find adding Acronis a very difficult task.

If you post up the plug in , I will have a look - it will give clues about setting up the driver.

It may be different from mine as you will have a different version.

I was going to suggest you shell out the extra 30 bucks, or whatever it is to get the Acronis winpe.

What does it ask for in the instructions ?

You might be fine to use the 32 bit recovery disc for that. It depends what Acronis expects to find when you point it at winpe.

If that's the case, you can just put the 32 bit recovery cd in the drive, rt click the drive select copy.

Then rt click your HD ( e.g. your C partition ) and select paste.

It might accept that as the winpe base. ( I haven't used the plus pack - I built my own. )

On the other hand , if it's expecting you to download WAIK - you're in for a treat - it's a gigantic download.

If you can upload the .inf file from the Bartpe plugin - it would be interesting to see. ( It's only a text file )


If you're a Paragon user - you don't have to do all that. WinPe download is available with the paid versions - ready made, just boot it up. They don't charge extra , either.