Trouble creating WinPE recovery media
The tool for creating the WinPE-based recovery media thinks I have not installed the Windows ADK. I installed the Win 10 ADK. By default it went into C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10. Should I have overridedn the installation path and put it somewhere else?


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https://forum.acronis.com/forum/71918
MVP Mustang's WinPE builder can create 2015 rescue media using the Windows 10 ADK.
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Steve, I saw KB document 48152 and another (which I can no longer locate) that includes the Win8.1 ADK. The instructions for for the 8.1 ADK installation matched the 10 ADK installation so I hoped they might both work. Thank you for clarifying I'm out of luck with AHTI 2015.
Joey, I saw Mustang's instructions but was a bit intimidated. A lot of steps to get wrong. And I don't really need Secure Boot on the recovery medium, I probably can do without Universal Restore, and if it's really just UEFI I can use it only with 2 of my 3 PCs.
I'll probably eventually upgrade to TI 2016 so maybe I'll just wait and create the WinPE recovery medium then.
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I wonder if you could trick the Acronis application my by renaming the ADK folder from 10 to 8 or 8.1 (I forget what it's actually listed as, I believe 8) or if it's actually looking for the build # in the registry or the version in control panel or someting like that. Worth a shot.
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I bit the bullet and upgraded to TI 2016 and created a WinPE recovery USB flach memory device. Now I've discovered it may not do what I hoped/needed - allow recovery across a wireless connection. Even recovery across an ethernet connection is not as straightforward as I had hoped but the thread https://forum.acronis.com/forum/118416 got me pointed in the right direction (Thanks Steve, Bobbo, and others. And it wasn't even my thread.) I'm now a little bit familiar with DISMGUI and suspect and solution to the wireless problem is going to get me a lot more familiar with it!
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Patrick - you can bring in wireless drivers to your WinPE using DISM gui or ADK commands
I am lazy so I usually use DISM gui to mount the wim and then insert drivers using the ADK commands
Dism /Image:C:\MyMountedFolder /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\drivers\mydriverfolder /ForceUnsigned /Recurse
You can also copy the portable app, PENetwork, which has wireless connectivity as long as you have the right drivers (extract first and put in a folder and navigate there with command prompt in WinPE or add to your startnet.cmd file in X:\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd
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