This article will proceed with showing you the basics of building Win7PE SE boot media, as Win7PE SE is my distribution of choice when it comes to WinBuilder projects (mostly because I’ve not played with the other projects enough yet). There is a bunch of others projects as well MultiPE: Build boot media from Vista or Windows 7 sources NaughtyPE: Based on Windows XP and aiming to have better media support than most bootable media (based on the name, you can guess the rest of it’s intended purposes) Win7PE: Uses Windows 7 32 or 64bit as a source

LiveXP: Uses Win XP as a source and is meant for repair and administration There are a bunch of sub-projects based around WinBuilder, to name just a few: It does this by allowing you to scrape components off of the Windows install media and the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), as well as allowing you to create scripts for adding 3rd party apps onto the boot media. WinBuilder is essentially a scripting framework for making bootable Windows PE CDs/DVDs/USBs.

For those wanting to build something a little newer, check out WinBuilder. Unfortunately, the Bart’s PE project has not been updated in awhile, and Windows XP is getting kind of long in the tooth, so I went looking for a replacement.

Having a bootable USB drive or CD I can run Windows tools from just comes in hand so often for task like malware/spyware removal, system recovery and harvesting locked files for “pro bono pen-test purposes”. Building a boot USB, DVD or CD based on Windows 7 with Winbuilder and Win7PE SE Tutorialīuilding a boot USB, DVD or CD based on Windows 7 with WinBuilder and Win7PE SE TutorialĪs many of you know, I’m a big fan of Bart’s PeBuilder and derivative works based on it like UBDC4Win.

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