Create WinRE USB manually

WinRE.md

#Create WinRE USB manually from windows files

This is a Gist to creating a bootable Recovery Drive - USB disk that boots right into Windows Recovery Environment.

You just have to format the USB disk in FAT32, make it active. And copy files in following hierarchy.

###WinRE Files

• boot/

  • fonts/

    Copy all files from C:\Windows\Boot\Fonts and paste it in this folder.

  • resources/

    • bootres.dll

      Source: C:\Windows\Boot\Resources\bootres.dll

  • BCD

    Source: C:\Windows\Boot\DVD\PCAT\BCD

  • boot.sdi

    Source: C:\Windows\Boot\DVD\PCAT\boot.sdi

• efi/

  • boot/

    • bootx64.efi

      Source: C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi

  • microsoft/

    • boot/

      • fonts/

        Copy all files from C:\Windows\Boot\Fonts and paste it in this folder.

      • resources/

        • bootres.dll

          Source: C:\Windows\Boot\Resources\bootres.dll

      • BCD

        Source: C:\Windows\Boot\DVD\EFI\BCD

• sources/

  • boot.wim

    Find winre.wim in C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ OR C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ and paste it as boot.wim.

• bootmgr

  Source: C:\Windows\Boot\PCAT\bootmgr

• bootmgr.efi

  Source: C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgr.efi