How to install Windows on WinPE

In the way of installing Windows, install Win in WinPE environment selected by many people. The speed of installing Win in this way is quite fast, does not need as much time as when you install via USB or CD / DVD. Even if users cannot access the system, they can install Windows as usual. In particular, during the computer installation process, there will be less error of installing win, or full disk error of 100% on the system. The following article will guide you how to read how to install Windows on WinPE, which can be applied from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

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Instructions to install Windows on WinPE

Before installing, we need to create a versatile USB boot. You can refer to the multi-boot boot tool below.

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Prepare the Windows ISO file you want to install. After that, you will find the following way to proceed with installing Windows.

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Step 1:

We plug the USB boot into the computer and access the BIOS interface. Depending on the machine, there will be different ways to access BIOS. You can refer to the article below for a shortcut to the BIOS on your computer.

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By default accessing the BIOS will boot from the hard drive, but you choose to boot from the boot USB to proceed.

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Step 2:

Access the hard drive on your computer and then proceed to Format the hard drive to install Windows . In the File Type section, select NTFS , uncheck the box at Quick Format.

Step 3:

Click on the DLC Boot icon and select Disk Tools then select the BootICE tool.

Step 4:

Next, load MBR, PBR to the partition of the installed hard drive above. Click Physical Disk then click on the partition to install, click on Process MBR and select Windows NT 5.x / 6.xMBR . Finally press Install / Config to proceed.

Here we will choose the latest version of Windows NT 6.X MBR to use.

Step 5:

Switch to the new interface and click Process PBR , select the hard drive partition to install, Install / Config and click OK to install.

Step 6:

In this step, users will have 2 ways to do that: mount the drive to install directly from the exe file or use WinNTsetup included in the USB BOOT.

Method 1: Install directly from the file

We right-click on the ISO file and select Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk . A virtual drive containing the Win installer will appear. Then proceed to install Windows as usual.

Method 2: Use WinNTsetup to install Win

Step 1:

First, users also need to right-click on the ISO file and select Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk . Next click on the DLC BOOT icon and select System . In the list click on the software WinNTSetup .

Step 2:

The WinNTsetup interface appears and select Windows Vista / 7/8/2008/2012 if Windows 7 or later is installed. In the Select location of the install.wim section, click the Search button to find the install.win file or the install.esd file at the virtual drive.

Step 3:

After selecting the file at the interface below the Select localtion of the installation driver click on the Search button to select the partition to install the win.

Then check the option Patch UxTheme.dll to allow unsigned Themes . Click on the Tweaks button to make the option advanced if you want, or you can skip it. Click Setup to proceed with the installation process.

If the message appears, ask the user to select a boot mode with BootICE or BootSect with newer WinNTsetup versions, select BootICE mode.

Finally wait for the installation of Windows to complete.

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I wish you all success!