{"id":424,"date":"2010-07-16T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-do-i-create-the-image-for-windows-boot-media\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:51:43","slug":"how-do-i-create-the-image-for-windows-boot-media","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-do-i-create-the-image-for-windows-boot-media\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Create the Image for Windows Boot Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u00a0begin using Image for Windows (IFW), you will need to create\u00a0the\u00a0boot media, which will be one of the following (depending on your preference and version of Windows):<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Image for DOS (IFD)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Image for Linux (IFL)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>TBWinRE (IFW)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>TBWinPE (IFW)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>This tutorial takes you through the process of using TBWinPE\/RE Builder (included with IFW) to create the Image for Windows TBWinRE boot media (links are also provided for tutorials to create the IFD or IFL boot media):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/howto\/image-for-windows-first-things-first-make-a-boot-disk\/\">Image for Windows First Things First - Make a Boot Disk<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>For more information on creating the TBWinPE\/RE boot media, please refer to the full tutorials linked below:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/howto\/tbwinre_tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating a TeraByte Recovery Environment, WinRE Boot Disc, or UFD Containing Image for Windows (TBWinRE)<\/a><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/howto\/tbwinpe_tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating a TeraByte WinPE Boot Disc Containing Image for Windows (TBWinPE)<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u00a0begin using Image for Windows (IFW), you will need to create\u00a0the\u00a0boot media, which will be one of the following (depending on your preference and version of Windows): Image for DOS (IFD) Image for Linux (IFL) TBWinRE (IFW) TBWinPE (IFW) This tutorial takes you through the process of using TBWinPE\/RE Builder (included with IFW) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1777],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2121],"class_list":["post-424","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-faq-image-for-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-image-for-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/424\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}