Comments on: Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) – WinPE 3.0 Boot Environment

By: Nalin

Nalin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:09:20 +0000

Hi Brian,

Very good article. Can I ask ? is it possible to add software up date CAB file ( obtained via expand command on a .msu file) to a WIM using /add package ?

Thanks.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:39:24 +0000

How do you add networking to Winpe 3 ?

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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:32:59 +0000

[...] with the new generation UEFI BIOS on this device doesn’t understand NTFS. I had to create a new WinPE USB Boot Key that was FAT32 because the ones I had created previously wouldn’t work. [...]

By: Tom Ybarrondo

Tom Ybarrondo — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:12:26 +0000

Okay, here’s my issue, everything worked as it should for me except, when I copied over the modified .wim file to the server, imported it using WDS, (Yes I took the previous offline first), tried both replacing and just adding the new .wim file, it did not show up on the pxe boot menu. Any ideas, cause I have followed the instructions, which are in the help files verbatim I might add and still have no luck…anyone…anyone…Bueller

By: Greg Toscano

Greg Toscano — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:38:33 +0000

How do I add more network drivers to your existing winpe?

By: Bastian

Bastian — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:23:49 +0000

@AA
Sure it is. After step#7 you’re left with an WIM image. Just add this one to your WDS as a startimage (in case you’re using WDS)

By: Eric Kolotyluk

Eric Kolotyluk — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:05:13 +0000

DISM – Step #5 – Adding Drivers to WinPE

This step is a huge disappointment and frustration in what otherwise would have been a nice article. What is supposed to go in C:\YOUR_FOLDER_OF_INF_DRIVERS\ – You refer to “I have a huge library of drivers” but you give no clue on where we are supposed to get them from.

At least in step 6 you say where to get stuff for the C:\YOUR_FOLDER_OF_SCRIPTS. I would have been really nice if you could have done the same for step 5.

Anyway, for someone trying to follow your steps – step 5 is a huge road-block.

By: AA

AA — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:37:46 +0000

What about booting pxe, is that possible using this image?

Thanks.

By: Patrick O

Patrick O — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:27:57 +0000

hi Brain
First off, fantastic guides. Not having used dos prompt since i was 12 years old, i was able in 3 days to read the various articles, create my bootable CD with all the files i needed and get Gimagex up and running. The only snaffu i run into is trying to use Gimagex to create the image. I’ve got my main drive (D:) set as source and my external drive (g:, NTFS) set as my destination. However, when i click append, it tells me that i can’t write to g:. I’m not sure why this is since the external drive was freshly formatted and Gimagex lets me select it as the destination. Any thoughts would be helpful, and it not, keep up the fantastic work.
Cheers

By: ELDI

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