How to create a WinPE 4.0 (Windows 8 RTM build 9200) Acronis True Image 2013 Plus Pack Bootable Rescue Disk and optionally inject additional drivers in the WinPE image.

To be able to perform the following steps, be sure you have True Image 2013 and the True Image 2013 Plus Pack installed and working on your system.
All program installation folders assume the default folders for all programs mentioned.

You must have the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 installed, and be able to create WinPE 3.0/3.1 bootable media with the Acronis True Image 2013 Plus Pack WinPE ISO Builder before installing the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8 and following these instructions. It can be found here. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753

1. Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8.
	
Go to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652
Click "download".
When prompted to "save" or "run" the "adksetup" file, choose "run".
On the "Specify Location" screen, take the defaults.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_1.png
Click "Next". The next screen is the "CEIP" screen.
Choose either the "Yes" or "No" option, then click "Next".
Read and Accept the License Agreement.
The next screen is the Feature Selection screen. 
Select only the "Deployment Tools" and the "Windows Preinstallation Environment"
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_2.png
Click "Install".
This is a large download (3GB) and will take a while to install.
When the install is complete, click "Close".
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_3.png

You can also download the entire package for installation on another computer, or to install from your computer.

2. Open a "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt with Admin rights.
	
In Windows 8, press the Windows Logo "Start" key, and right-click the 
"Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" tile.
Select "Run as Administrator" from the bottom toolbar.
	
In Windows 7, click start, All Programs, Windows Kits, Windows ADK, and then right-click on "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment".
Click on "Run as Administrator"

You should have a "Deployment and Imaging Environment" command prompt open.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_4.png

Do not close the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt at any time until you have completed all the following steps.

3. Copy the needed files for the True Image 2013 Plus Pack WinPE ISO Builder.

From the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt,
Enter the following command and press enter:

copype x86 c:\winpe_x86
	
(If everything works correctly, you will see some files being copied
and you will be at a new command prompt "c:\winpe_x86").
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen-5.png

Enter the following command and press enter:

copy "c:\winpe_x86\media\sources\boot.wim" "c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim"

You should see a message stating the 1 file was copied.
(This creates the winpe.wim file we need for the WinPE ISO Builder)

Before continuing, list the contents of the folder to be sure the winpe.wim file is in the correct location for the following steps.

Enter the following command and press enter:

dir

You should see a list of folders and the "winpe.wim" file.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_6.png

If everything looks good, continue to step #4.
(Be sure to leave the command prompt open)
	
If not, close the command prompt by typing "exit" and pressing "enter".
Open an Explorer window and delete the "c:\winpe_x86" folder.
Then start again from Step #2 above.

4. Open the True Image 2013 Plus Pack WinPE ISO Builder
	
In Windows 8, press the Windows Logo "Start" key, and right-click the
"Acronis WinPE ISO Builder" tile.
Select "Run as Administrator" from the bottom toolbar.
	
In Windows 7, click start, All Programs, Acronis, True Image 2013 Plus Pack.
Right-click on "Acronis WinPE ISO Builder".
Click on "Run as Administrator".

5. Integrate the True Image 2013 program into a new "AcronisMedia.wim" file using the "winpe.wim" file created in step #3

From the opening screen of the "Acronis WinPE ISO Builder", click "Next".
The screen that appears next is the path selection screen. 

Point the "Acronis WinPE ISO Builder" to the folder "c:\winpe_x86" and
expand it to see the "winpe.wim" file.

Click the "winpe.wim" file.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_7.png

Click "Next".
The screen that appears next is the "Target File Selection" screen.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_8.png
Don't change anything on this screen, and click "Next"
The next screen that appears is the Ready/confirmation screen.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_9.png
Click "Proceed". Once the operation completes sucessfully, click "Ok".
The Acronis WinPE ISO Builder" will close automatically.

Verify the integration was sucessful.
At the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt,

Enter the following command and press enter:

dir

You should see a list of folders, the "winpe.wim", and "AcronisMedia.wim" files.
The "AcronisMedia.wim" file should be larger than the "winpe.wim" file.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen_10.png

If everything looks good, continue to step #6.
(Be sure to leave the command prompt open)

If not, close the command prompt by typing "exit" and pressing "enter".
Open an Explorer window and delete the "c:\winpe_x86" folder.
Then start again from Step #2 above.

6. Inject optional/additional drivers into the "AcronisMedia.wim" file

(Skip this step if you do not want to add any optional/additional drivers.)

If you need to add additional drivers that support you chipset/controller,
now is the time to do it. Remember that only 32 bit Windows 7 / Windows 8
drivers are supported in the x86 version of the WinPE 4.0 bootable media
we are creating.

Create a folder to contain the additional drivers you wish to inject into
the "AcronisMedia.wim" file.

From the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt,
Enter the following command and press enter:

md c:\winpe_x86\drivers
	
This will create a folder called "drivers" in the "c:\winpe_x86" folder.

Copy your extracted driver files into the c:\winpe_x86\drivers folder.
Use Windows Explorer to copy the files.
	
Driver files are obtainable from the device manufacturer. They usually
come in a .zip file format. They must be extracted from the .zip and placed
into the "c:\winpe_x86\drivers" folder for the following commands to work.
	
(The command to inject the drivers can point to any drive/folder you wish,
as long as you make the necessary changes to the command.)
	
For example, to inject the Intel RST RAID/AHCI drivers for Windows 7 / Windows 8,
You would need to download the 32 bit Windows 7 driver files.
These particular files come in a .zip file. They must be extracted from the
.zip file to be used for driver injection into the "AcronisMedia.wim" 
The following files are contained in the Intel RST RAID/AHCI .zip file.
"iaAHCI.inf", "iaahci.cat", "iaStor.inf", "iaStor.sys", and "iastor.cat".
To use the injection command that follows, the five Intel RST driver files
would need to be copied into the "c:\winpe_x86\drivers" folder we created.
Multiple driver files may be copied into the "c:\winpe_x86\drivers" folder
as long as the filenames are unique.

To inject the drivers in the "AcronisMedia.wim" file created earlier,
from the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt,
Enter the following commands and press enter:

dism.exe /Mount-Wim /WimFile:c:\winpe_x86\AcronisMedia.wim /index:1 /MountDir:c:\winpe_x86\mount
	
(This mounts the "AcronisMedia.wim" file.)

dism /image:c:\winpe_x86\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\winpe_x86\drivers

(This injects the drivers we placed in the "c:\winpe_x86\drivers" folder.

dism.exe /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit

(This unmounts and commits the changes to the "AcronisMedia.wim".)

See Windows_8_ADK_Screen-11.png to see the results of all three commands.	

Do not close the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt.

At this point we have created the "winpe.wim" file we needed for 
the "Acronis WinPE ISO Builder" program to use. We have integrated
the True Image 2013 aplication into a new "AcronisMedia.wim" file.
We then mounted the "AcronisMedia.wim" file, injected drivers into the image,
unmounted the image, and commited the changes to the "AcronisMedia.wim" file.
	
At this point we are almost ready to create a bootable ISO file for burning to a CD/DVD.

7. Create a bootable ISO using the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Window 8.

In order to be able to generate/create the bootable ISO using the Windows ADK for Windows 8, two files need to be copied to our "c:\winpe_x86" folder.

From the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" command prompt,
Enter the following commands and press enter:

Be sure to use the correct commands below based on your version of Windows (32 bit or 64 bit).

If you are running a 64 bit Version of Windows 7 or Windows 8:
	
copy "c:\program files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\Oscdimg\etfsboot.com"
copy "c:\program files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\Oscdimg\oscdimg.exe"

If you are running a 32 bit Version of Windows 7 or Windows 8:	

copy "c:\program files\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\Oscdimg\etfsboot.com"
copy "c:\program files\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\Oscdimg\oscdimg.exe"


Verify you have everything in order to be able to create the bootable ISO.
Enter the following command and press enter:

dir

You should see a list of folders, and the "winpe.wim", "AcronisMedia.wim", "etfsboot.com", and "oscdimg.exe" files.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen-12.png

One last step before creating the ISO. We need to copy the "AcronisMedia.wim" file to the proper location and to the correct filename (boot.wim) to be able to create the bootable ISO.

Enter the following command and press enter:

copy "c:\winpe_x86\AcronisMedia.wim" "c:\winpe_x86\media\sources\boot.wim"

(You should be prompted to overwrite the "boot.wim" file. Type "y" and press "enter".)

We are now finally ready to create the ISO.

Enter the following command and press enter:

oscdimg.exe -b"etfsboot.com" -n Media "c:\winpe_x86\AcronisMedia.ISO"

You should now have an "AcronisMedia.ISO" file in the "c:\winpe_x86' folder that can be burned to a CD/DVD.

Verify that there is an AcronisMedia.ISO file in your "c"\winpe_x86" folder.

Enter the following command and press enter.

dir

You should see your newly created "AcronisMedia.ISO" file.
See Windows_8_ADK_Screen-13.png

You can burn it to a CD/DVD from the folder it is in, or you can copy it to wherever you like.
You also can mount the "AcronisMedia.ISO" using third party applications and copy the files onto a flash drive to make a bootable WinPE 4.0 flash drive.
If you don't have any third party applications that can mount the "AcronisMedia.ISO" file, after burning the "AcronisMedia.ISO" to a CD/DVD, you can copy the files from the CD/DVD to a flash drive.
Remember that you do not want to burn the actual file (AcronisMedia.ISO) to a CD/DVD. It is an CD/DVD image file that needs to be burned onto your CD/DVD correctly.
I like to use the free program ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn my .ISO files to CD/DVD, but that are many others that do the job well.

James F.