{"id":620,"date":"2018-01-16T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/manually-updating-the-tbwinpe-re-boot-media\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:05:35","slug":"manually-updating-the-tbwinpe-re-boot-media","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/manually-updating-the-tbwinpe-re-boot-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Manually Updating the TBWinPE\/RE Boot Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generally, after creating the TBWinPE or TBWinRE build you will use the MakeDisk utility to create the boot media. As part of the process, the media is formatted, which will remove existing contents. This can be undesirable when the media contains other files. For example, if you have a large TBWinRE USB flash drive (UFD) that also contains your backup images, you wouldn't want to reformat the drive and lose your backups. In these cases, you can have TBWinPE\/RE Builder update the boot media or you can manually update the files.<\/p>\r\n

Important: <\/font><\/strong>The TBWinPE\/RE boot media being updated must be writable and should already boot properly. Updating the build files manually will not fix booting issues (unless the issue is due to missing booting files). To repair booting issues it may be necessary to recreate it using MakeDisk. If you need to change the USB Layout used for the boot media it would necessary to recreate it using MakeDisk.<\/p>\r\n

Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Create the new build of TBWinPE\/RE normally using TBWinPE\/RE Builder.
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  2. After the build has finished, do not run the MakeDisk utility. Instead, do one of the following:
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    1. To have Builder update the boot media, click the Update existing boot media<\/strong> link on the final step of the wizard (or use the File | Update Boot Media...<\/em> menu item). Then connect and select the boot media drive and click the Update<\/strong> button.\r\n Important: <\/font><\/strong>\r\nDo not enable the Remove existing boot media files before updating<\/strong> option if you have custom files in the boot media folders on the boot media that are not in the ISO boot media folders (they would be removed and not copied back). (Requires Builder v1.46 or later.)
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    2. To manually update the boot media files, continue with the following steps.
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    3. Use Windows File Explorer (or Command Prompt) and browse to the TBWinPE\/RE build folder. For example, if your TBWinRE build folder is E:\TBWinRE<\/font>, browse to that folder.
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      \r\n If you're creating the TBWinRE build from a default Image for Windows installation, the folder would be one of the following:\r\n
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      \r\n Windows 32-bit (x86)<\/strong>
      \r\n C:\Program Files\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\tbwinre<\/font>
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      \r\n Windows 64-bit (x64)<\/strong>
      \r\n C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\tbwinre<\/font>
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    4. Once in the build folder, open the ISO<\/font> folder (e.g. E:\TBWinRE\ISO<\/font>). This folder contains the files for the boot media.
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    5. Copy the contents of the ISO<\/font> folder to the root folder of the existing TBWinPE\/RE boot media drive. For example, if your TBWinRE UFD is drive F:<\/font>, you would copy to F:\<\/font> (in the case of Windows File Explorer you would just open the drive and copy there). The existing TBWinPE\/RE files on the boot media will be replaced with the updated files. If you receive a prompt to overwrite or replace the files, select to do so.
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      \r\n Note:<\/strong> At the very least, in standard builds, it's necessary to copy the updated boot.wim<\/font> file to the boot media (the booting files don't often change).\r\n Using the example above, you would copy E:\TBWinRE\ISO\sources\boot.wim<\/font> to F:\sources\boot.wim<\/font> to update the media. Additionally, you should also copy the TBData\TBWinRE.txt<\/font> (or TBWinPE.txt<\/font>) file as it contains the version information for the build. For custom builds you would want to copy any custom files included in your build's ISO<\/font> folder that are newer than those on the boot media. For example, you may have an updated autorun.cmd<\/font> file in the ISO\TBData<\/font> folder that should be copied.<\/li>\r\n <\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Generally, after creating the TBWinPE or TBWinRE build you will use the MakeDisk utility to create the boot media. As part of the process, the media is formatted, which will remove existing contents. This can be undesirable when the media contains other files. For example, if you have a large TBWinRE USB flash drive (UFD) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1796],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2121],"class_list":["post-620","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-general-information-image-for-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-image-for-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/620\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}