This document reviews the processes involved with creating USB devices that boots into a Windows PE 2.0 environment. WinPE 2.0 is a Windows based environment leveraging the core components, that’s offered as part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK). WinPE 2.0 provides enhanced device driver support, Network support, ADSI, WSH and WMI support which makes it valuable tool for troubleshooting issues when the installed OS is not available. Additionally, Microsoft’s Deployment Toolkit and OSD in SCCM 2007 leverage WinPE 2.0 for OS deployment tasks that prepare the target system for imaging and for applying configuration items prior to starting the new OS.
From: Erik Chapple