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How to Create WinPE Bootable Disk for All Windows - 2 Ways

If you are trying to look for a way to create a WinPE bootable disk for all Windows OS, EaseUS Partition Master can help. It supports users to create one WinPE bootable disk for all Windows systems with ease.

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What is WinPE Bootable Disk

WinPE, known as Windows Pre-installation Environment, is a lightweight version of different Windows OS, such as Windows 10/8/7/XP. It is a minimal operating system where you can prepare a PC for installation, deployment, and Windows servicing.

Why Need to Create a WinPE Bootable Disk

WinPE bootable disk supports to manage hard disk partitions when Operating System crashes, resize primary drive to reinstall other OS, and even manage partitions on a computer without Operating System. Moreover, it allows you to recover deleted partition, extend system partition, and rebuild MBR without losing any data. The most important thing is that the WinPE bootable disk can boot a crashed computer and boot a computer without OS. Here in this guide, we will tell you how to create a WinPE bootable disk in two ways.

Method 1. Create WinPE Bootable Disk in Simple Steps

Creating a WinPE bootable disk is very complicated. It does not only contains many steps but also requires users to have advanced computer knowledge. As a result, we recommend a third-party tool - EaseUS Partition Master to help Windows beginners. EaseUS Partition Master is specialized in computer partition management. It allows users to resize, move, extend partitions, change SSD from MBR to GPT, and even migrate OS to HDD/SSD on computers without losing data under different Windows OS. More importantly, it can help users to create WinPE bootable disk with fewer steps.

Now download EaseUS Partition Master and follow the guide below to see the easiest method of creating a WinPE bootable disk.

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Step 1. To create a bootable disk of EaseUS Partition Master, you should prepare a storage media, like a USB drive, flash drive or a CD/DVD disc. Then, correctly connect the drive to your computer.

Step 2. Launch EaseUS Partition Master, and find the "Bootable Media" feature on the left. Click on it.

Step 3. You can choose the USB or CD/DVD when the drive is available. However, if you do not have a storage device at hand, you can also save the ISO file to a local drive, and later burn it to a storage media. Once made the option, click the "Create" button to begin.

  • Check the Warning message and click "Yes".

Step 4. When the process finishes, you'll see a pop up window, asking if you want to restart computer from the bootable USB.

  • Reboot Now: it means you want to restart the current PC and enter EaseUS Bootable Media to manage your disk partitions without OS.
  • Done: it means you don't want to restart the current PC but to use the bootable USB on a new PC.
Select if you want to boot pc from bootable usb

Note: To use the bootable disk on a new PC, you need to resart the target computer and press F2/F8/Del key to enter BIOS, and set the USB bootable disk as the first boot disk.

Wait patitiently and your computer will automatically boot up from the USB bootable media and enter EaseUS WinPE desktop.

Enter EaseUS WinPE Desktop

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Method 2. Create WinPE Bootable Disk with Windows ADK

Another method you could apply is to use Windows ADK. This method is a little complicated. If you want to have a try, follow the step-by-step guide below.

Step1. Download the Windows ADK (Assessment and Deployment Kit). It contains the CopyPE and MakeWinPEMedia command-line utilities.

Step 2. Launch the ADK tool, select the "Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit-Windows 10 to this computer" and click "Next".

Install Windows ADK Tool

Step 3. On the subsequent page, click "Next" and "Accept".

Step 4. Choose the "Deployment Tools" and "Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)" options and click "Install".

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Step 5. Close the installation process when it's finished. Open the Start menu and go to "Windows Kits". Right-click "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" and head to "More" > "Run as administrator".

Step 6. When it runs, execute the command: copype amd64 G:\WinPEx64 (replace G:\ with your drive letter).

Step 7. Then execute the command: MakeWinPEMedia /ISO G:\WinPEx64 G:\WinPEx64\WPE64.iso. When you see "100% complete" and "Success", it means you've successfully created WinPE files.

Step 8. Now you can navigate to the G drive or where you created the WinPE files. There you will see a WinPE iso file.

Then you can connect the target disk to the computer, and burn ISO files to it to make it bootable. For this task, you can use Windows To Go (an available feature in Windows 10 Education/Enterprise/Pro and Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise).

Step 9. Type "Windows To Go" in the search box to launch this tool.

Step 10. It will automatically search for all inserted USB drives. Choose the destination USB drive and then "Next" to continue.

Step 11. Click "Add search location" to search for the Windows installation ISO file and choose the mounted ISO file.

Step 12. On the next window, you can set a BitLocker password to encrypt your Windows To Go workplace.

At last, you will get a WinPE bootable disk for Windows 10.

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Updated by Roxanne

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