9 hours ago
(Today, 01:50 AM)Froggie Wrote: You need to understand the basic, first attempt, build process. When building the EMERGENCY DISK initially (after a fresh HBS install), if you don't select the Download Components process, HBS will use your System's generated WinRE.wim file (if it can find it) to create the emergency media. Usually this contains the richest driver set for the System it's being built on, but lately, users with W11 25H2 upgrades have been experiencing issues with that WinRE version. If you select the download components process, it will allow you to do that or use an off-line media to do the build (Hasleo's OPE file if you have it). The components download will be the current WinPE (not RE) build available from MicroSloth for your OS. The off-line OPE selection will be whatever you've downloaded from Hasleo (they have both a W10 and W11 version... the W11 version is much richer in its driver inclusions).
If you've already gone through the above procedure once, Hasleo will use "leftovers" for any future build. They include the original "internal" winpe.iso build as well as the downloaded MicroSloth components. That's why if you want a "fresh" ED build, you need to do a "leftover" cleanup (described previously) or a fresh program install which will also do that for you.
Personally I have found Hasleo's W11 OPE off-line download to be the most versatile WIM-base for all my needs, regardless of OS in use on the actual System being imaged. The W11 WinPE WIM-base is never as new as the WinRE.wim created by the OS... which in this case is a really good thing
