Summary<\/b>: Build out the necessary file structure for a Windows PE environment.<\/p>\n
Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to give you all you need to build out your own Windows PE file structure.<\/p>\n
<\/b> Note<\/strong> This is a five-part series that includes the following posts:<\/p>\n Let’s think about what we’ve developed in the first three parts of this series:<\/p>\n Our next task is to pull all of this together into a file structure for Windows PE.<\/p>\n Confused?<\/p>\n Normally, we would take a Windows image file and expand it directly to the target file system. But not with Windows PE. A Windows PE environment boots from a very tiny version of Windows. It then creates a RAM drive (think back to the days of DOS!) and places the WIM file structure within the RAM drive.<\/p>\n Fortunately, we don’t need to do any work, the file structure is readily built for us. If you examine the folder structure for Windows PE, you’ll see a folder called Media<\/b>. This is located directly under your AMD64 or x86 folder, depending upon the chosen version of Windows PE.<\/p>\n In our case, we are working with the 64-bit version, which means the folder you need to grab is:<\/p>\n C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Assessment and Deployment Kit\\Windows Preinstallation Environment\\amd64\\Media<\/p>\n If you use our previous function and $Variables<\/b>, you can reference it in this fashion:<\/p>\n $WinPEMedia=”$WinADK\\Media”<\/p>\n We now need somewhere to put the file structure of Windows PE, so let’s use this:<\/p>\n $WinPETemp=’C:\\TempPE’ If you did nothing else, you’d have yourself a very basic structure for Windows PE under the folder called Media<\/b> that is defined within $WinPETemp<\/b>.<\/p>\n The critical file is called Boot.wim and it is under the Sources<\/b> folder. We need to update this file with the customized version we created in Part 2 of this series. Remember these three lines of PowerShell?<\/p>\n $Destination=’C:\\Pewim’ We’ll need to copy the Boot.wim from the folder defined in $Destination<\/b> to the Sources<\/b> folder:<\/p>\n Copy-Item –path “$Destination\\boot.wim” –destination “$WinPETemp\\Media\\Sources” –force<\/p>\n This folder structure will now have everything you need for using Windows PE with Windows PowerShell. Our next phase?<\/p>\n We get that puppy on a USB key and start to play…tomorrow!<\/p>\n I invite you to follow the Scripting Guys on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to them at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. 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Install the Windows ADK and validate its presence with Windows PowerShell<\/li>\n
Customize a Windows PE environment to contain Windows PowerShell and DISM modules<\/li>\n
Identify available USB keys and make them bootable devices<\/li>\n
Build out the necessary file structure for a Windows PE environment<\/li>\n
Populate a bootable USB key with content from Windows PE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $WinPETemp –Force
Copy-Item -Path “$WinAdk\\Media” -Destination $WinPETemp -Recurse –Force
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path “$WinPETemp\\Media\\Sources” –Force
Copy-Item -path “$WinAdk\\en-us\\winpe.wim” -Destination “$WinPETemp\\Media\\Sources\\boot.wim”<\/p>\n
New-Item -Path $Destination -ItemType Directory –Force
Copy-Item -path “$WinPETemp\\Media\\boot.wim” -destination “$Destination\\”<\/p>\n