WinPE-based bootable media

Bootable Media Builder provides two methods of integrating Acronis Cyber Backup with WinPE:

• Creating the PE ISO with the plug-in from scratch.
• Adding the Acronis Plug-in to a WIM file for any future purpose (manual ISO building, adding other tools to the image and so on).

You can create WinRE-based PE images without any additional preparation, or create PE images after installing Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) or Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK).

WinRE-based PE images

Creating of WinRE-based images is supported for the following operation systems:

• Windows 7 (64-bit)
• Windows 8, 8.1, 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019 (64-bit)

PE images

After installing Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) or Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), Bootable Media Builder supports WinPE distributions that are based on any the following kernels:

• Windows Vista (PE 2.0)
• Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (PE 2.1)
• Windows 7 (PE 3.0) with or without the supplement for Windows 7 SP1 (PE 3.1)
• Windows 8 (PE 4.0)
• Windows 8.1 (PE 5.0)
• Windows 10 (PE for Windows 10)

Bootable Media Builder supports both 32-bit and 64-bit WinPE distributions. The 32-bit WinPE distributions can also work on 64-bit hardware. However, you need a 64-bit distribution to boot a machine that uses Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).