Create a Windows 7 PE Bootable USB Flash Drive (32 bit and 64 bit)

Download Windows 7 AIK ISO file
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753
Burn the ISO or extract it to a folder (e.g., using 7zip)
Run StartCD.exe
Choose the “Windows AIK Setup” option
When complete, navigate to Start->all programs -> Microsoft Windows AIK -> Deployment Tools Command Prompt
In the Deployment Tools Command Prompt window, issue the following commands.
Note: if needing a 32-bit version of Windows PE, replace “amd64 with “x86”
```
copype amd64 c:\WinPE_amd64
copy c:\WinPE_amd64\winpe.wim c:\WinPE_amd64\iso\sources\boot.wim
```
Insert your flash drive
Launch diskpart (Start button-> then type diskpart)
Locate your flash drive with this commandlist disk
Select it, format it and make it bootable (in this case the flash drive was disk 1) using these commands:
```
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick label=WinPE_amd64
assign
exit
```
Determine what drive letter has been assigned to your flash drive
The last step is to copy files to flash drive (in this case drive letter of the flash drive was F:
```
xcopy c:\WinPE_amd64\iso\*.* F:\ /
```

If you want to create an ISO to use later:

oscdimg -n -bc:\winpe_amd64\etfsboot.com c:\winpe_amd64\iso c:\winpe.iso

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