Build KBE for WIndows 8
Hello,
We are just starting testing for Windows 8 and I am trying to create a WIndows 8 KBE. I have downloaded the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment software from microsoft. Media manager will not find the PE files for this kit. I have tried pointing the directory to any directory in the kit files but it does not work. Should we be deploying Windows 8 via the Windows 7 AIK? Is there some sort of process I should be folllowing? I have check IT Ninja and can't find anything as well as looked at the Admin guide for answers but there is nothing there. Thanks!
Answers (2)
The K2000 does not yet support WinPE4. You can continue to use the WinPE3 KBE made from the Windows AIK and it will capture/deploy Windows 8.
This has not worked for us. I have tried everything under the sun and nothing seems to allow the image to restore. I used Win 8 Ent 64bit to build a reference machine. Applied desired settings and packaged with unattend file using VLK license. I can capture a wim image of the reference machine with no problem but when I try to deploy to another machine it never boots. Can't figure out why. Unattend simply creates some accounts and applies the license. What am I missing? Is there a reference page yet with step by step. Like the above user I have been on IT Ninja for days and can't find any information. Likewise the guides at this point are useless.
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I get exactly the same issue, just saying "Booting..." and nothing happens. - AndreasInfront 11 years ago
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try this. Go into PXE Boot environment and select recovery. Open command prompt and look at diskpart to determine what drive is the OS drive. Typically D with windows 8. Type in the following command in command prompt bcdboot D:\Windows This applies the boot manager to the correct OS drive. I did this and rebooted and boom the thing booted up. I ended up building a post installtion script that simply performs this task and my images will now boot. I ran in to all kinds of other problems though and decided to skip the whole UEFI process that creates 4 drives, etc. KBOX just seemed to not be able to handle it. I build a simple 2 drive (C, D) image without UEFI support. The problem is my system the boot environment recognizes the CDROM as D which causes the image to fail on deployment. So I built a pre installation script to assign letter E to the cdrom then wipe the drive, then create 2 partitions and everything works flawlessly now. Not perfect, but works for me.
select volume 0
assign letter="E"
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size=350
active
format quick fs=ntfs label="System"
assign letter="C"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="D"
I did this because in the boot environment when you capture the image sees the drives as C system and D windows. I just made the pre installation task match. The post installation then sets D as the windows boot. - HelpdeskCary 11 years ago
