You will see that the procedure described here is much more convenient than most solutions you’ll find on the web.īefore you get started, you have to make your flash drive bootable. In this article, I will describe how you can create a bootable Windows PE 3.0 (WinPE) USB stick, and, in my next post, I will show how to add your own rescue tools and how to keep your rescue stick up-to-date without much hassle. However, it is also useful in creating your own customized rescue boot media. Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) was originally designed to deploy Windows. This also applies to the Windows 7-based edition, Windows PE 3.0. When Windows Vista was released everyone had access to Windows PE 2.0. Create a bootable Windows PE 3.0 USB driveįor Windows PE 1.0, the minimalist Windows based on Windows 2003/XP, you needed an SA (Software Assurance), OEM, or ISV license.
