WinPE-based bootable media

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a minimal Windows system. WinPE is commonly used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporations for deployment, test, diagnostic and system repair purposes.

Similarly to creating an Acronis bootable media, you can create a bootable media that is based on WinPE and includes bootable components of Acronis Snap Deploy 5.

You may want to use a WinPE-based media instead of an Acronis bootable media for the following purposes:

• Performing imaging or deployment to machines with hardware that is not properly recognized by the Acronis bootable media (which is based on a Linux kernel)
• Performing deployment in the command-line mode; for example, to deploy different master images to different target machines
• Sending e-mail notifications about deployment

Note: WinPE-based bootable media of versions earlier than 4.0 do not support UEFI booting.