![]() Making an Easy. RE Recovery USBOut of all of Neo. Smart Technologies’ products, Easy. BCD and our Windows Recovery CDs are the two most popular. This picture- by- picture guide will demonstrate how you can use Easy. BCD to create a bootable Windows Recovery USB that you can use in lieu of a bootable CD or DVD. Consider using Easy USB Creator instead! Easy. BCD can’t create a bootable USB stick if you’re running it on Windows XP! This guide shows how to make a bootable USB of Windows operating system to quickly install Windows from a USB drive instead of DVD. You’ll need to follow these instructions on Windows Vista or higher for it to work. You can use Easy USB Creator instead, which does support Windows XP. It’s also easier to use and creates bootable recovery USBs more reliably, too. It’s free!)You can even use these directions to create a multi- purpose “swiss- army USB” by adding more than one image to the USB disk, letting you choose which one you want to boot from when you turn on your PC! Requirements. Before you start with this guide, you’ll need to have the following things on hand: A USB stick or USB drive that has at least 5. Mi. B of free space,A copy of Easy. BCDAn ISO image of the Windows XP/Vista/7 repair CDObtaining Easy. BCDEasy. BCD can be either downloaded or purchased from our website at http: //neosmart. Easy. BCD/. If you’re using this at work or for commercial purposes, you’ll need to buy an Easy. BCD license. Obtaining the Windows XP/Vista/7 Recovery CD ISO image. You’ll need to have the ISO image you purchased for download from http: //systemdiscs. If you’ve bought the disc online, you’ll need to go to your order page (check your email!) and download the ISO image – make sure to save it to disk (and not run) if/when you’re asked! Getting Started. Step 1: Plug in your USB drive. If the system can not boot, bootable disc can be the best solution. AOMEI Backupper can help to create bootable disc of Windows PE, Linux and make ISO bootable file.Tutorial to create WinPE based bootable disk of EaseUS Todo Backup for system disaster recovery. Bootable backup software from EaseUS can quickly restore system from. Home site for RMPrepUSB and USB tutorials. Using your personal Windows XP/Windows Vista®/Windows 7 PC (not the target system that you wish to image). Make sure you insert or connect your USB drive to the computer before you install and run Easy. BCD in the next steps! Step 2: Install Easy. BCDAssuming you don’t already have Easy. BCD installed, you’ll need to run the setup file you downloaded earlier. Just click “next” on all the prompts, and you’ll be good to go. Step 3: Run Easy. BCDOpen the start menu, go to the programs menu, expand the “Neo. Smart Technologies” folder, expand the “Easy. BCD” folder, and then click the Easy. BCD entry. Or just search for Easy. BCD in the start menu. Copy the ISO image to the USBStep 1: Copy the ISO image to the USBAt this point, you need to copy the ISO image you created or downloaded from System. Discs. com to the USB drive. Locate the file in My Computer or My Documents, then copy and paste it to the USB drive (do not put it in a folder on the USB!): Step 2: Rename the ISO image. You’re almost ready to add the new entry to Easy. BCD. Easy. BCD can’t load an ISO image that has spaces in its name, so you need to rename it from (for example) “Easy. RE for Windows 7” or “Easy. RE for Windows 7. Windows_7_Recovery_Disc” or “Windows_7_Recovery_Disc. If you see an extension, don’t change it. For example, if it says “Easy. RE for Windows 7. Use Easy. BCD to create a bootable USBStep 1: Go to BCD Deployment. Once Easy. BCD has launched, click the big button in the Easy. BCD Toolbox sidebar that says “BCD Deployment” which will bring you to the page shown below: Easy. BCD BCD deployment screen. Step 2: Select your partition from the drop- down menu. Click on the drop- down box in the top- half of the screen (where it says “Partition: “) and select the entry that matches your USB drive: Easy. BCD BCD deployment screen select partition. Step 3: Install BCD to USBNow you need to tell Easy. BCD to install the bootloader to the USB, making it possible to boot from it. Just click the “Install BCD” button to begin, and wait for the BCD installation to finish: Easy. BCD installing BCD screen. Step 4: Allow Easy. BCD to load USB bootloader. Easy. BCD will ask you (rather nicely) if you want to load the newly- created BCD from the USB drive. Make sure you press yes when you see this dialog: Easy. BCD BCD installed screen. Step 5: Go to Add New Entry | ISOClick the “Add New Entry” button in the Easy. BCD Toolbox sidebar, then click on the ISO tab in the bottom- half of the screen (it’s the one with the icon of a CD on fire): Easy. BCD adding new ISO entry screen. Step 6: Change the name and type. In the ISO tab, change the Name textbox to something a bit more useful, such as “Windows 7 3. Recovery” and make sure the type is set to “Run from Disk”: Easy. BCD adding new named ISO entry screen. Step 7: Browse for the ISO image. Click the icon of the folder with three dots to open a browse file dialog. Use that to find the ISO image you copied to the USB drive. Do not select the ISO image that was saved to your computer! Make sure you select the ISO image you copied to the USB and renamed in the section above! Step 8: Add the ISO entry. After selecting the ISO image from the USB, you’re ready to add the entry! Just go ahead and click the “Add Entry” button with the green plus sign, then wait for it complete its task: Easy. BCD adding new ISO entry screen. Step 9: Exit Easy. BCDGo ahead and close Easy. BCD from the file menu. Make sure you don’t remove the USB until Easy. BCD has closed! Wait for Easy. BCD to close! Easy. BCD hasn’t yet saved the changes to the USB drive. If you pull out the drive before Easy. BD has had a chance to save the changes and fully exit, you’ll risk damaging your USB drive and/or PC! Easy. BCD exit menu option. Step 1. 0: Remove the USBYou can now safely remove the USB drive from your computer and give yourself a pat on the back. Your USB stick can now be used to boot into the Windows Vista/7 Recovery CD! Recover your PC! You’re now ready to take this USB to another computer (the one that needs help), and proceed to boot from it. Next step: Follow our instructions on using the recovery CD to fix your computer. Rinse and Repeat? Optional!)If you have more than one recovery CD ISO image you want to add to your USB, just repeat the steps above, starting from copying the ISO and ending with exiting Easy. Create a bootable Windows PE 3. USB drive with rescue tools – Part 1 – 4sysops. Learn how to create a bootable Windows PE 3. USB drive. First you you create the bootable USB stick, then you copy the Win. PE 3. 0 files to the drive. Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 3. IT management and system administration. Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all)Update: There is now an easier way to create Windows PE boot media. For Windows PE 1. Windows based on Windows 2. XP, you needed an SA (Software Assurance), OEM, or ISV license. When Windows Vista was released everyone had access to Windows PE 2. This also applies to the Windows 7- based edition, Windows PE 3. Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) was originally designed to deploy Windows. However, it is also useful in creating your own customized rescue boot media. In this article, I will describe how you can create a bootable Windows PE 3. Win. PE) USB stick, and, in my next post, I will show how to add your own rescue tools and how to keep your rescue stick up- to- date without much hassle. You will see that the procedure described here is much more convenient than most solutions you'll find on the web. Create a bootable USB drive ^Before you get started, you have to make your flash drive bootable. I have already described this procedure in my post about the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. For your convenience here is the command sequence, which you should run on a command prompt with admin rights: diskpartlist diskselect disk #cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1activeformat quick fs=fat. Replace '#' with the drive number of your USB drive. Be careful to choose the right disk in 3 because this procedure will erase the whole drive! Copy the Win. PE 3. USB drive ^Win. PE 3. Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7, which you can download here. Once you have installed the WAIK, you'll find a folder of the Windows AIK on the Windows Start Menu. Launch the Deployment Tools Command Prompt and enter this command: copype. Then, copy winpe. ISO\sources\boot. Now, copy Win. PE to your USB drive: xcopy C: \winpe_x. G: \In this example, 'G: ' is the drive letter of your flash drive. Now you should be able to boot from your Win. PE 3. 0 USB drive. In my next post, I will outline the interesting part—that is, how to prepare your USB drive so that you can add new tools without starting again from scratch. Win the monthly 4sysops member prize for IT pros. Related Posts. Removing a corrupted Canon print driver. Change keyboard layout language for the login screen.
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