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Trouble creating WinPE recovery media

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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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Patrick, please see KB document: 48152: Acronis True Image 2015: Creating WinPE Media with Acronis Plug-In which also show which of the Windows ADK's are supported with ATIH 2015 WinPE media builder.  This doesn't include the Windows 10 ADK unfortunately.

FYI ATIH 2016 didn't have support for Windows 10 ADK when first released but was added in later.

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.

 

 

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. 

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!

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