7 hours ago
@garioch7... there are (3) Recovery/BOOT menu options available from HBS. I'll try and describe them below...
1. By not selecting the Download WinPE components option, HBS will use a file on your System called WinRE.wim to build your Emergency Media/BOOT Menu. This is a file, built by Windows (and usually located in your Windows Recovery partition) that offers Windows the ability to BOOT your System into a Recovery mode, if necessary, during various problem scenarios. It contains a full WinPE configuration as well as a bit of extra stuff, including wireless drivers which are not contained in a base WinPE. Windows recreates the WinRE configuration during certain updates/upgrades when it feels necessary. Some users are afraid of this as Windows, in the past, has messed up the WinRE configuration causing many issues with the LIVE Windows System.
2. By selecting the Download WinPE components option, you will receive the basic WinPE configuration via download from Microsoft and it will be used for the Emergency Media/BOOT Menu building process. The result, using the WinPE base configuration, is smaller than the WinRE configuration. During the building process, if adding existing drivers is used, I believe HBS tries to add whatever unique drivers exist on your System to that build (they will need to respond if this is not the case). Result, the Recovery Media should be fully functional for the System it was built on.
3. A third option exists that I have mentioned in previous posts. By selecting Download WinPE components (and Automatic driver injection <set as DEFAULT>), the next screen offers either Microsoft.com or Offline WinPE Package. If you select Offline WinPE Package, no Microsoft download will occur, and the HBS Emergency Media build will begin using a local OPE (Offline PE) file, previously downloaded from Hasleo. This is the method I have always used when creating Recovery Media. Once the OPE file has been downloaded from Hasleo (contains the latest stable build of WinPE from Microsoft and the user must do this), this option may be used for all recovery media creation. Hasleo offers the latest stable WinPE build based on Windows 11. This build is the most driver rich version available from Microsoft (I mention "stable" due to the fact that it most likely won't be the latest issue from Microsoft... many of their issues are bug bitten at the time of issue). When using this method, no download is required (except the initial OPE download from Hasleo) prior to the building of the recovery media and the building process is much faster due to the lack of a download. This provides a stable WinPE baseline for all Recovery Media produced from this moment forward.
Yes, since a WinRE build already exists on your computer, the additional OPE download will require additional storage... appx 867kB, but the stability and predictability of that OPE image is way better than an ever changing WinRE. The OPE may be somewhere on your machine that isn't part of a regular image if you feel you are space limited in some way.
Hope this helps!
1. By not selecting the Download WinPE components option, HBS will use a file on your System called WinRE.wim to build your Emergency Media/BOOT Menu. This is a file, built by Windows (and usually located in your Windows Recovery partition) that offers Windows the ability to BOOT your System into a Recovery mode, if necessary, during various problem scenarios. It contains a full WinPE configuration as well as a bit of extra stuff, including wireless drivers which are not contained in a base WinPE. Windows recreates the WinRE configuration during certain updates/upgrades when it feels necessary. Some users are afraid of this as Windows, in the past, has messed up the WinRE configuration causing many issues with the LIVE Windows System.
2. By selecting the Download WinPE components option, you will receive the basic WinPE configuration via download from Microsoft and it will be used for the Emergency Media/BOOT Menu building process. The result, using the WinPE base configuration, is smaller than the WinRE configuration. During the building process, if adding existing drivers is used, I believe HBS tries to add whatever unique drivers exist on your System to that build (they will need to respond if this is not the case). Result, the Recovery Media should be fully functional for the System it was built on.
3. A third option exists that I have mentioned in previous posts. By selecting Download WinPE components (and Automatic driver injection <set as DEFAULT>), the next screen offers either Microsoft.com or Offline WinPE Package. If you select Offline WinPE Package, no Microsoft download will occur, and the HBS Emergency Media build will begin using a local OPE (Offline PE) file, previously downloaded from Hasleo. This is the method I have always used when creating Recovery Media. Once the OPE file has been downloaded from Hasleo (contains the latest stable build of WinPE from Microsoft and the user must do this), this option may be used for all recovery media creation. Hasleo offers the latest stable WinPE build based on Windows 11. This build is the most driver rich version available from Microsoft (I mention "stable" due to the fact that it most likely won't be the latest issue from Microsoft... many of their issues are bug bitten at the time of issue). When using this method, no download is required (except the initial OPE download from Hasleo) prior to the building of the recovery media and the building process is much faster due to the lack of a download. This provides a stable WinPE baseline for all Recovery Media produced from this moment forward.
Yes, since a WinRE build already exists on your computer, the additional OPE download will require additional storage... appx 867kB, but the stability and predictability of that OPE image is way better than an ever changing WinRE. The OPE may be somewhere on your machine that isn't part of a regular image if you feel you are space limited in some way.
Hope this helps!