Win10 installation: How to make an anniversary update official official version of PE boot disk?

Microsoft has released the Win10 First Anniversary Update (1607) Evaluation and Deployment Kit (ADK), which we can use to make officially clean Windows 10 PE bootable USB flash drives. The production steps that I want to introduce are not difficult. I just need to download and install ADK, and I can make it with the U disk boot tool.

The specific steps are as follows:

1. Enter the Microsoft Win10 first anniversary update ADK download page, click on the blue<;Get Windows for Windows 10 version 1607 After ADK”, download the installation tool, as shown below ——

2, download and install the required content, the steps are as follows ——

▲ Note: There are two options, you can directly specify the download and installation content, as shown above, or select the second, download all the installation files, and then select the required components during installation. For the average user, you can use the default selection directly, because other content is generally not used... If you do not want to install the program in the default location, you can modify the path (this is not the PE installation location).

▲Photo description: Ask if you are allowed to collect data, please choose whatever you like.

▲Photo description: License agreement, must accept

▲Picture description: General users only need to check the “Deployment Tools” and “Windows Pre-Installation Environment (PE)”, other content can be selected as needed, then click “Install” "

3. After entering the tool, enter the tool and extract the PE. The steps are as follows: ——

▲Picture description: Find the newly installed "Deployment and Imaging Tool Environment"

▲Photo description: Take the production of 64-bit PE system as an example, use the following command to extract the system file:

copype amd64 C:\\Win10PE_amd64

where, amd64 For the PE folder, C:\\Win10PE_amd64 is the new folder for storing the extracted files (the location and folder names can be customized).

4. Make Win10 PE official ISO image

▲You only need one command to complete:

MakeWinPEMedia /ISO C:\\Win10PE_amd64 C:\\Win10PE_amd64\\Win10PE_amd64.iso

The above command means to create a Win10PE_amd64.iso image under C:\\Win10PE_amd64. Since the image is only 255MB, the creation process is almost "snapshot".

5. Make a boot U disk

It should be noted that after the U disk is created, the image content inside is not visible, and it looks empty in the file explorer. For example, the 8GB U disk in the above figure, after the completion of the display is 7.22GB empty disk (may have to explain, the U disk labeled 8GB display size is 7.53GB, which is different between the manufacturer and the system The resulting conversion difference).

6, U disk PE boot

▲Picture description: This pure version of PE does not come with desktop and tools like the domestic third-party version, open one for you after startup CMD has completed the task, you want to run what program you have to open with the command form, but the mouse is still supported

Extended reading: What is Windows PE?

Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), which stands for Windows Preinstallation Environment, is the smallest Win32 subsystem with limited services, based on Windows XP Professional and above running in protected mode. It includes the minimum functionality required to run Windows installers and scripts, connect to network shares, automate basic processes, and perform hardware verification.

Windows PE generations include: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

The purpose of Windows PE is not as a primary operating system, but as a stand-alone pre-installation environment and other installers and recovery technologies (such as Windows Installer, Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS), Systems Management Server ( SMS) Operating System Deployment Feature Pack and the full components of the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).