Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Andrew — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:23:25 GMT

I am using the WAIK 3 which is based from Windows 7 however peimg.exe has been replaced with DISM.exe. the switches are not the same.

Can somebody help me?

Using:

Windows Server 2008

WIAK 3

Windows 8 Consumer Preview DVD (for the boot.wim)

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

John — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:15:51 GMT

I'm using the Windows AIK in Windows 7. Whenever I try to mount the Winre.wim in the folder c:\winre_mount I get the message: "The current logged on user does not have administrative privileges." How can I solve this?

Thanks for the article.

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Jeff — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:16:57 GMT

Works very nice :-)

Is there any option to add a password in it? So that end users cannot "accidentaly" boot from this image?

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Which images file did I get — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:32:03 GMT

I tried the IMAGEX /EXPORT command but it said there was no image #2, so I tried to grab image #1 and got it, but now I'm not sure if I have a Vista directory structure or an RE one. This was from the BOOT.WIM file on an HP Pavilion recovery DVD (they don't provide Vista media so I can't repair my Vista with their disc, only reformat and restore to factory config)

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

David Johnsn — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:47:05 GMT

Yes you need to download and install the WAIK

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Navneet12 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:49:14 GMT

Plz help. When I type imagex.exe in command prompt it says batch unrecognised file type . Plz tell if I have to download anything or what to do. I am very much perplexed. Do I have to download the AIK KIT.

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Navneet12 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:48:40 GMT

Plz help. When I type imagex.exe in command prompt it says batch unrecognised. Plz tell if I have to download anything or what to do. I am very much perplexed. Do I have to download the AIK KIT.

Found out how to get network connectivity in WinRE!

Teqonix — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:57:14 GMT

Hey everybody, I'm not sure if anyone else found this out or not - but I found a way to get WinRE working with network connection.

You still need to install the network drivers on the image so WinRE can see your NIC(s), but as some have noted on here, that's not enough to get it to work.

It's really simple, actually. WinPE uses a script when it starts which initializes Plug and Play devices + Network connectivity. That script is located in <WinPE mount directory\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd

Inside this script is the all-too-familiar wpeinit command. Run that, and you have network connectivity in WinRE, now.

This solution works for temporary network connectivity, but it you want full network connectivity from the start of your WinRE session, then what I did is modify the \Windows\System32\Winpeshl.ini file and changed it from starting RecEnv.exe (The WinRE Recovery GUI) to starting startnet.cmd. Of course, the way Winpeshl.ini seems to work is that when the application it starts is closed, the system reboots. So, add a line to startnet.cmd which calls RecEnv.exe, and WinRE will start with network connectivity and will behave like normal from then on until RecEnv.exe is closed, which returns control to startnet.cmd, which finishes, and reboots the computer. All just like normal!

I had some security concerns with launching startnet.cmd at first because it might give unauthorized access to a user that starts WinRE on a client machine via the command prompt that pops up, but the call function seems to lock out the command prompt window until control is returned to it. So, I'm pretty sure that it's still secure to deploy on client systems if you intend to do that like I do.

Anywho, hope this helps. This information seems to be a little difficult to find.

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK, Vista SP1

pmeinl — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:11:31 GMT

Using Vista x64 SP1

imagex.exe /export ... 2 ...

did not work for me. I got a syntax error, and showing the imagex switches.

imagex.exe /info shows PE being image index 1

Using image 1 the extract worked.

When starting repair usind F8 I got the error:

"Windows PE cannot start because the actual SYSTEMROOT directory (X:\Windows) is different from the configured one (X:\$Windows.~BT\Windows). This can be configured with peimg /targetpath..."

I solved this using:

peimg /targetpath=x:\ c:\winre_mount

Now it works

re: Creating Window RE Using Windows AIK

Data1701 — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:48:28 GMT

No Answers on the blog anymore ?

I'm searching for a way to design a WIN RE environment with network access (RDP e.g.) WIN RE in not more or less than PE 2.0, so why not.

Regards

Data1701