2 working under bootable media, Working under bootable media – Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide User Manual

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Bootable Media Builder supports only x86 WinPE 2.x, WinPE 3.0, WinPE 4.0, and WinPE 5.0. These WnPE
distributions can also work on x64 hardware.

Adding Acronis Plug-in to WinPE ISO

To add Acronis Plug-in to WinPE ISO:

1. When adding the plug-in to the existing Win PE ISO, unpack all files of your Win PE ISO to a

separate folder on the hard disk.

2. Start the Bootable Media Builder either by selecting Tools > Acronis Bootable Media Builder or,

as a separate component.

3. Select Bootable media type: Windows PE.

When creating a new PE ISO:

Select Create Windows PE automatically

The software runs the appropriate script and proceeds to the next window.

When adding the plug-in to the existing PE ISO:

Select Use WinPE files located in the folder I specify

Specify the path to the folder where the WinPE files are located.

4. [optional] Specify Windows drivers to be added to Windows PE. Once you boot a machine into

Windows PE, the drivers can help you access the device where the backup archive is located.
Click Add and specify the path to the necessary *.inf file for a corresponding SCSI, RAID, SATA
controller, network adapter, tape drive or other device. You will have to repeat this procedure
for each driver you want to be included in the resulting WinPE boot media.

5. Choose whether you want to create ISO or WIM image.
6. Specify the full path to the resulting image file including the file name.
7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed.
8. Burn the .ISO to CD or DVD using a third-party tool or copy to a flash drive.

Once the machine boots into WinPE, Acronis Disk Director starts automatically.

To create a PE image (ISO file) from the resulting WIM file:

replace the default boot.wim file in your Windows PE folder with the newly created WIM file. For
the above example, type:

copy c:\AcronisMedia.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

use the Oscdimg tool. For the above example, type:

oscdimg -n –bc:\winpe_x86\etfsboot.com c:\winpe_x86\ISO
c:\winpe_x86\winpe_x86.iso

For more information on customizing Windows PE, see the Windows Preinstallation Environment
User’s Guide (Winpe.chm).

7.1.2 Working under bootable media

Operations on a machine booted with bootable media are almost the same as operations in the
running operating system. The difference is as follows:

1. The Check volume (p. 39) and Defragment volume (p. 39) operations are not available under

bootable media.

2. Specify the disk layout (p. 21), if two or more Windows operating systems installed on the

machine. If only one Windows operating system is installed, the disk layout of this operating

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