Help to make a Windows PE disc

[m256997683119]

Hi,

Can I ask for help to create a WinPE based disc for Paragon Backup and Restore Suite 10? It's the free Twitter edition and the WinPE maker is not included. As of the moment I am having problems with it because the external portable expansion drive I have is not recognized when I boot to the rescue media. It only reads the hard drives I have.

As much as possible I'd like to have some leverage in case I am to recover an image I did from an external drive. I have Windows AIK installed in the pc concerned.

Can someone help me please..

Regards

 

[marsmimar]

Would this Paragon tutorial be of any help?

Paragon Boot Media Builder - Overview

 

[m256997683119]

Would this Paragon tutorial be of any help?

Paragon Boot Media Builder - Overview

@marsmimar,

Thank you s much for the reply. I just visited the link but my product is not covered as it's a promo from twitter. As of the moment I am at a loss as to how to create one..Windows reads/detects the external drive just fine. As I often recover from this external drive the issue will make my backups useless. If Windows can detect it fine then it surely will detect it in the winpe environment.

I also have the Windows 7 32-bit Repair Disc from neowin. Used it to see if it will detect the external drive. It does not see the .vhd backup files I created. When I click load drivers > My Comuter, I see that the external drive is there and the .vhd backup file is there but the repair disc will not recognoize it as it is looking for a driver not a backup. Even if I unplug/plug the external drive and click "refresh' no windows backup is seen.

So I am attempting to create a winpe for Paragon.

I have made one already but it is with Acronis Plus Pack + WAIK. I have WAIK here but then again I do not know how to for Paragon

 

[marsmimar]

Sorry. I missed the "free Twitter" part of your first post.

It's my understanding that only Paragon subscribers (those who purchase a paid product) are entitled to the WinPE build. Would you be interested in a different imaging software from Macrium Free? One of the Forum members has a WinPE download available.

http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-restore/229409-macrium-winpe-iso-download.html

 

[m256997683119]

It's been a long time since I used Macrium...but I remember that it does not backup files/folders..I check out the link. I also have WAIK installed. Will be back here Thanks.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

You can make your own . It isn't necessary to have WAIK if you are on win7.

I made a program for paragon support a while back. It is out of date now - so will do another one.

It is much better than the one created by macrium - or even paragon's own BMB.

I don't have a great deal of time today - perhaps tomorrow night is the earliest I will be bale to have a go.

If you are running 32 bit win7 - it is even easier.

B&R Suite is a good program - the one you have isn't the most recent - but it supports win7 as I recall, so you should be fine with it.

If that is the giveaway version - can't remember if it included p2p adjust and/bootcorrector.

 

[m256997683119]

Hi,

You can make your own . It isn't necessary to have WAIK if you are on win7.

I made a program for paragon support a while back. It is out of date now - so will do another one.

It is much better than the one created by macrium - or even paragon's own BMB.

I don't have a great deal of time today - perhaps tomorrow night is the earliest I will be bale to have a go.

If you are running 32 bit win7 - it is even easier.

B&R Suite is a good program - the one you have isn't the most recent - but it supports win7 as I recall, so you should be fine with it.

If that is the giveaway version - can't remember if it included p2p adjust and/bootcorrector.

@ SIW2,

Yeah it isn't the most recent..I see that it's version 12 now. The one I have includes the p2p adjust and boot corrector. Only the winpe capability is not included. I saw that 'pecreator' in one of the threads about Macrium but could not download it from SkyDrive. OK will wait for it then thanks there.

@marsmimar,

Will also download Macrium Free v5 and the winpe as alternative. Thanks. A friend whose using Macrium free says that she wasn't able to do backups using the Linux cd and that when she recovered an image she did (she is dualbooting and made an image of the active partition and the other primary partition) she lost her 3rd partition(logical). I do not know about that but is that true?

 

[marsmimar]

@marsmimar,

Will also download Macrium Free v5 and the winpe as alternative. Thanks. A friend whose using Macrium free says that she wasn't able to do backups using the Linux cd and that when she recovered an image she did (she is dualbooting and made an image of the active partition and the other primary partition) she lost her 3rd partition(logical). I do not know about that but is that true?

I haven't heard of any issues of losing partitions using Macrium. (I think the company's reputation would be in the toilet rather quickly if that was a widespread problem.) Not to say it couldn't happen but if it did, I think it would be an isolated case due to perhaps user error.

 

[SIW2]

 

[marsmimar]

Awesome, Sy!

 

[SIW2]

You tried it already?

That was quick.

 

[m256997683119]

here.

rt click the downloaded zip, properties>unblock>apply>ok

extract it onto the root of the drive, so you have C:\PARAGONPE

In there , rt click and run as admin on PARAGON-RunMeAsAdmin.cmd

Hello SIW2

Thank you for the reply and help!!!

So I'll extract onto C:\ -- and just run it as admin and it's finished. How will I burn to cd? Anyway, I am downloading now and will try this one when I get home(in the office right now).

Will report back here again. Is there anything that I need to know or check additionally?

This is very very useful and helpful for those who are using Paragon apps

Regards,

 

[m256997683119]

Originally Posted by marsmimar
I haven't heard of any issues of losing partitions using Macrium. (I think the company's reputation would be in the toilet rather quickly if that was a widespread problem.) Not to say it couldn't happen but if it did, I think it would be an isolated case due to perhaps user error.

Yeah probably a user error of some sort. I too cannot understand why she lost other partitions since the app will only lock/install onto the selected partition and not the others. Thanks

 

[m256997683119]

Originally Posted by marsmimar
I haven't heard of any issues of losing partitions using Macrium. (I think the company's reputation would be in the toilet rather quickly if that was a widespread problem.) Not to say it couldn't happen but if it did, I think it would be an isolated case due to perhaps user error.

Yeah probably a user error of some sort. I too cannot understand why she lost other partitions since the app will only lock/install onto the selected partition and not the others. Thanks

 

[m256997683119]

Hello SIW2,

I just ran the PARAGONPE.zip earlier and went as far as the created,

C:\ISO\sources\BOOTx86.WIM

Then I do not know how to create an iso file from it. Sorry for the very newbie questions as I am not well versed with these kind of endeavor. Most of what I understand I learn from gurus like you and from this forum who have been very very helpful to me.

Kindly see the attached images for you to see if what went through was right.

Suppose I will add drivers for USB3.0, (have no need for it yet but may probably soon), where can I get drivers for USB3.0?

Will await reply

Thanks!

 

[SIW2]

That looks right so far.

Why did you stop there?

Then next question it asks is would you like to create an iso

Type Y and press enter - it will make an iso in few seconds.

Next it asks if you want to burn the iso. Type Y and press enter, then isoburn.exe pops up asking if you want to burn it.

Suppose I will add drivers for USB3.0, (have no need for it yet but may probably soon), where can I get drivers for USB3.0?

Depends what usb drivers you need. You will find them at various driver sites.

Some of the common RAID and USB drivers are in here: View attachment Driversx86.zip

 

[rkenimer]

I'm having a few problems with this. I go through all the steps, but the finished product doesn't seem to be a PE - it boots to the windows Setup screen and insists that it can't load any drivers.

Also, adding drivers is tedious - is there any way to multi-select drivers to be added, instead of doing each one individually?

 

[m256997683119]

Hmmmm....it did not ask me to make an iso. It stopped when it asked if I was to "add another PBR or HDM or XX"...I typed "n" as I only had PBR installed. That was it.

I repeated the procedure this time I used the ver2 (deleted the elements of the previous ver1)now there is a C: PARAGONPEver2. But the thing is it did not ask again to make an iso...anyway, I was also able to make an iso from the,

C:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO\sources\BOOTx86.WIM

using 'Deployment Tools Commad Prompt' of my installed WAIK. See image attached.



I was able to burn it with Imageburn. But when I booted to cd there was an error "CANNOT BOOTMGR". I rebooted again to be sure but the error was the same. Kindly see the contents of the cd/iso file.



The Oscdimg string is:

oscdimg -n -bc:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO\BOOT\ETFSBOOT.com C:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO\BOOT C:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO\sources\BOOTx86.iso

Is there something wrong I am doing here...? I Hmm is the string correct?

In addition I was lucky to make an iso of the BOOTx86.WIM because I chanced upon I had WAIK installed, how can I make the BOOTx86.WIM to an iso file if I had not used WAIK? That "asking me to make an iso file" is great but sadly it did not push through...

Can I repeat all of that by just deleting the whole C:\PARAGONPEv2 and start over again?

I'd like to see that "ask me to make an iso file" function because that's a nifty addition there. Very nice!

Incidentally during my search for how to make an iso file from the .wim, I formerly opened cmd.exe and pasted the string there but i said,

"...'oscdimg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Thanks and will wait for your reply

 

[SIW2]

You won't have oscdimg in the normal cmd path. You will have it if you open waik tools cmd.

If you just want a simple iso with bios boot support, the command should be

oscdimg -n -o -m -b"C:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO\BOOT\ETFSBOOT.COM" "C:\PARAGONPEv2\ISO" "C:\PARAGON.iso"

 

[SIW2]

It is pe - with the standard win7 drivers.

Your difficulty seems to be you need specific drivers for your machine.

I'm having a few problems with this. I go through all the steps, but the finished product doesn't seem to be a PE - it boots to the windows Setup screen and insists that it can't load any drivers.

Might have a look at putting that in as an option when I get the time.

Also, adding drivers is tedious - is there any way to multi-select drivers to be added, instead of doing each one individually?