Considerations for installing Windows 7 with Win PE

Because of the new features of "carrier-independent" installed in Windows 7, you can allow us to install or deploy Windows 7 flexibly and arbitrarily. At present, there are many kinds of information about how to install Windows 7, such as: How to install by hard disk, make CD to install, use U disk to install, use hard disk to install or install through network. Goxia has also published related logs very early, and today is mainly about sharing Windows PE to install the Windows 7 RTM.

As an IT professional, in the face of the work must be rigorous, serious, efficient, flexible and trustworthy! In the system deployment or maintenance, each hand will have a Windows PE or customized version of Windows PE. As mentioned above, the work attitude that leads to some very hot online custom version of Windows PE may not apply with some working environment. Typically, ITPro uses Waik to make a customized version of Windows PE that incorporates very useful gadgets, such as Goxia, a customized version of Windows PE made earlier based on Windows Vista Waik, that internally integrates Remote Desktop, I Practical software such as Magex, Ghost, and virtual optical drives, especially the virtual CD-ROM, can easily be loaded into Windows Vista installation ISO or even now the installation ISO for Windows 7, which is very handy for installing the operating system because we don't need to specialize, Maintain a copy of the installation source that is stored with Windows. Starting with Windows Vista, Goxia copies its customized Windows PE on its USB drive, mobile hard disk, CD-ROM, or even a WDS server, which is handy for installing and maintaining the operating system. And this PE has been used to Windows 7 RC, but after the Windows 7 RTM English version, it is no longer available (PS: leaked Windows 7 RTM Chinese version did not find this problem)! Specifically, the installation announcement failed after the first phase of Setup was performed and an unhandled error was prompted. Check the system disk, found that the directory format on the disk is not a normal name, but contains a directory such as Windows.old, it seems that the English version of Windows 7 RTM during the installation of the system check this process more rigorous, I am based on Windows Vista PE identification for the old version of the system, so Final installation Failure!

OK, here's the note, if you want to install Windows 7 RTM using Windows PE, you must meet the latest WAIK 3.0 for Windows PE, or you must use Imagex to manually install Windows 7.