Create a Bootable Utility Image

3/21/2011

You create a bootable utility USB Flash Drive (UFD) in Windows Embedded Standard 7 so that you can capture or extract an image on a device, start Image Builder Wizard on a device, or start your device using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 3.0. Once you have started a device with Standard 7 or Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 3.0, you can run Target Analyzer or build an image using an answer file. If your device has a bootable DVD-ROM drive, you can use the Standard 7 DVD that is appropriate to the device architecture as a bootable utility disk. If your device does not have a bootable DVD-ROM drive, you need to create a bootable utility UFD. In the following steps, you will create a temporary directory to collect all the files and folders necessary to make a bootable utility UFD, copy those files to the UFD, and make it bootable.

Hardware and Software Assumptions

• You have a reference device that meets the Requirements for an Embedded Device.
• You have installed Windows Embedded Standard 7 Toolkit on a development computer that meets the Requirements for a Development Computer
• You have the set of three Standard 7 DVDs.
• You have a blank UFD that you can format that is at least 2 GB (4 GB recommended).

Creating a Bootable Utility CD-ROM or USB Flash Drive

Step	Topic
1. On the development computer, gather the files and folders you need for a bootable utility UFD.	Gather Required Files for a Bootable Utility Disk
2. On the development computer, gather and add optional files and folders that you may want on your bootable utility UFD.	Gather Optional Files for a Bootable Utility Disk
3. Copy or burn the utility files onto the CD-ROM or UFD. Note: Before copying the utility files to a UFD, you must partition and format the UFD to make it bootable.	Create a Bootable Utility Image Create a Bootable Utility UFD

Next Steps

After you create a bootable UFD, the next step is to decide whether to use BitLocker Drive Encryption on your device. For more information, see BitLocker Drive Encryption.

See Also

Tasks

Install Using a Distribution Share and an Answer File
Install Using a Configuration Set and an Answer File