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1. #CREATE A BOOTABLE IMAGE FOR SERVER DEPLOYMENT ON MAC INSTALL#
2. #CREATE A BOOTABLE IMAGE FOR SERVER DEPLOYMENT ON MAC DRIVERS#

We will be creating a x86 version of WinPE as I found that the 圆4 version has problems with detecting some of the hardware, this also means that when downloading the mass storage drivers and network drivers from download the x86 versions. WinPE is used to image the actual hardware and stands for Windows Preinstallation Environment, it is small and used as a forefront for deploying the wim images. This will ensure that WinPE is compatible with most hardware out there. The driver pack will be used for the WinPE image that will be created with Windows AIK.

#CREATE A BOOTABLE IMAGE FOR SERVER DEPLOYMENT ON MAC INSTALL#

The windows machine will be used to create the initial image for the deployment and install the supporting applications like AIK, VirtualBox, DISM GUI, Clone Drive, and slip stream all the necessary drivers for your hardware. Having said this you will need to create a CD or DVD WinPE image so you can image the Virtual Box Operating System, as Virtual Box does not allow booting from flash drive. You could use CDs or DVDs for booting the software but as of Windows 7 I find that flash drives are more reliable than optical media and less prone to installation errors. A Windows machine with 100GB of free space, a 4GB flash drive, Windows OS disc, Windows AIK, Oracle VM VirtualBox, DISM GUI, Virtual Clone Drive, latest driver pack from, hardware drivers for your specific hardware, and another flash drive or usb hard drive size will depend on your image size. The following software and hardware is necessary to create a custom image. From here on in all references made to windows assume we are talking about windows 7. Specific set of hardware would be more geared for the home user. You can design the image to be very broad covering a wide range of hardware or very specific and target a specific set of hardware. Either way you can have your desktop recovered in a matter of minutes with a full suite of software, updates, and preferences.

For business users this can speed up deployment time to multiple PC on your network. For home users you can create a recovery image in case something goes wrong with your PC. I want to create detailed instructions so that the most basic of users can create and deploy the image. This information can both apply to home and business users.