Microsoft® Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) Support Speed up your recovery process
Gday
When I purchased TI 2011 and the Plus Pack, I was under the impression that the WinPE, would be automatically installed, providing I did a complete installation and not a custom installation.
However no where can I find the option to create WinPE.iso
System Manufacturer/Model Number Homebuilt
OS Vista Ultimate 32 bit
CPU AMD Phenom II x 4 965
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
Memory 4GB DDR3
Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce 9800GT
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Phillips 19"
Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024
Keyboard 12 year old Compaq, cant see any of the letters anymore
Mouse Microflacid Sterile
PSU Thermaltake 850W
Case Coolermaster Storm Black Edition
Cooling AC-ALPINE-64PRO ARTIC COOLING
Hard Drives 1 x 1TB Sata 1 x 160GB IDE 1 x 2Tb WD External My Book Elite 1 x 1TB WD External My Book Elite
Internet Speed ADSL 1500mbps
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Ok I need help ........ the first time I tried installing AIK for Windows Vista (PE 2.0), when I rebooted I lost my OS, and have to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate, then do a recovery. So I am now wary of AIK.
I have installed BartPE & SafeMedia, from my plugins section, however from the reading I have been doing BartPE is only good for XP not Vista.
Then to add to my confusion
Solution
Adding Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 ISO
1. Do one of the following:
* When adding the plug-in to the existing Win PE 2 or PE 3 ISO, unpack all files of your Win PE 2 or 3 ISO to a separate folder on the hard disk.
* When creating a new PE 2 or 3 ISO:
o Select from the Start menu Microsoft Windows AIK -> Windows PE Tools Command Prompt;
o Run the copype.cmd script to create a folder with Windows PE files. For example, from a command prompt, type:
o
copype x86 C:\winpe_x86
2. Select Acronis -> Plus Pack for Acronis True Image Home 2011 -> Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Start menu;
3. Specify path to the folder with the WinPE files (C:\winpe_x86\ISO);
When I type copype x86 C:\winpe_x86 under the "run" I get an error message "Windows cannot find copype".
I am so confused
Read the first link that Grover posted for some help.
Ok I have installed WAIK, and
2. Select Acronis -> Plus Pack for Acronis True Image Home 2011 -> Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Start menu;
3. Specify path to the folder with the WinPE files (C:\winpe_x86\ISO);
I do not have the Plus Pack on my start menu. Help!!!
Fiery,
If you don't see it under Acronis in your start menu try this:
In the search or run box type:
For a 64 bit system:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\winpe_iso.exe
For a 32 bit system
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\winpe_iso.exe
If this doesn't work, reinstall your Plus Pack
Fiery,
If you don't see it under Acronis in your start menu try this:
In the search or run box type:For a 64 bit system:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\winpe_iso.exeFor a 32 bit system
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\winpe_iso.exeIf this doesn't work, reinstall your Plus Pack
Nope not found :( ,so reinstall just the Plus Pack?
Ok done, now when I tried to create the ISO, i received an error message "bootmenu.bin cannot be found select another folder or reinstall the applicatiion and start wizard again".
reinstall what?
I think Acronis hates me :/
Fiery,
I had the same issue with the missing bootmenu.bin. I fixed it by repairing the installation of ATI and reinstalling the Plus Pack. Also, you may find that the wizard behaves differently when you go through it several times. Here are a couple of things to check:
- when it asks for the WinPe files, make sure you select the ISO folder in the created Winpe x86 directory
- then you should be asked if you want to create an ISO or add to a WIM file. If you don't see this choice, start over and relaunch the WinPE
- then you should see where you want to save your ISO. If you don't see this choice, restart the process (maybe this step is before, not sure)
- if you don't see the wizard a) mounting the WIM, b) building the ISO and c) unmounting the WIM, then the process didn't work, restart.
I know this is funny (or maybe not), but this is what I went through. That might you save a couple of burned disks that don't work :-)
Ok I had success this time no error message about the bootmenu.bin file. Created the ISO, now I cant bloody find it!!
yay!!! I found it, have made Acronis Media Builder DVD.
Now I have a question, does this Media Builder work like the Paragon Bare Metal Backup and Restore?
Go ahead and try it. You sould be able to boot from your newly created media, launch Acronis TI from there (backup, restore, tools, etc.)
I am not familiar with Paragon.
It is basically the same as Acronis (Paragon), I have 3 backup and restore programmes installed, Acronis, and 2 Paragon programmes, 1 that is paid for is the basic, the other which is free to use, has a more comprehensive backup utilities features installed, but I haven't purchased that one yet. The thing that appeals to me with the Paragon backup is it does what is known as a "bare metal backup", i.e. the backup does not is not running in windows when it backs up.
And yes you are probably thinking 3 back up programmes is overkill, maybe it is, but they've saved my bacon on more than one occassion.
Just don't ask how many hard drives I have with all of my programmes, music pictures etc. I have, you could say I am somewhat paranoid about losing my things, it happened once, never again :)
I am with you. I diversify my backup/restore risks across 4 backup programs (2 image and 2 file backup), media types and locations. I am definitely paranoid.
I will check out Paragon.
Well I tried the Winpe disk and all it basically did was give me an option to boot into Windows, very disappointing :/
Try to reinstall the Plus Pack and see if it solves your missing files issue. That did it for me and the WinPE is working.
Try to reinstall the Plus Pack and see if it solves your missing files issue. That did it for me and the WinPE is working.
The WinPE boot disk works, just not as I hoped it would, it doesn't give me an option do a bare metal backup
If the WinPE works, you should see the full version of ATI running in it.
Nope it doesn't :(
Yeah... So your WinPE build din't succeed. Try to reinstall your Plus Pack and restart the wizard. You know, I have not seen the wizard do twice the same thing :-) The last time I did it went through alright.