How To Create a Hasleo Backup Suite Emergency Disk(HBS-ED)
Primary Source: @
Froggie
Primary Link:
https://www.easyuefi.com/forums/thread-4...l#pid12599
This FAQ Post discusses creating Hasleo Backup Suite Emergency Disks, which can be created on a DVD or a USB flash drive (
the latter is recommended).
(
This FAQ Post is a consolidation of information from one or more posts, and has been edited to be current.)
A Hasleo Backup Suite Emergency Disk (HBS-ED) should
always be created, and
be kept current, as advised by the Release Notes for each new version. Users are strongly advised to create an HBS-ED after installing HBS for the first time to ensure that, in the event of an SSD or HDD failure of their Operating System Disk
C:, they can boot their computer from the HBS-ED to restore their OS, programs, and data from their most recent HBS system image.
“There are (3) Recovery/BOOT menu options available from HBS:
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.”
https://www.easyuefi.com/forums/thread-4...l#pid12599
“If you only checked download from Microsoft.com and not the use the off-line WinPE option, the resultant winpe.iso (located in Hasleo's "bin" folder)will be built from Microsoft's downloaded WinPE offering (after the download) not the offline WinPE option.
To use the offline WinPE option you must have the previously mentioned OPE file resident (somewhere on your System) before you do the build. This may be done by using Hasleo's offline WinPE download page
HERE. Once you have it present, then you can build the offline version of the recovery media.
The WinPE offline file (.OPE) is used during the build (just like it would use the downloaded Microsoft option or the WinRE option) and stored where Hasleo stores all the rest of its build results. Since newly installed versions remove the legacy stored stuff, all new versions will require a build using that OPE file once again. If you're producing new recovery media without changing the HBS installed media, then any new recovery media will be the same as the one 1st created after a new install.
One of the main reasons I use the OPE installation is because only one download is required and the result is stored on your System for Hasleo to use when building a fresh recovery media (using the offline option). Currently Hasleo forces users to re-ADD their BOOT media when installing new versions. If doing so, that process will build a new reference "winpe.iso" for the Hasleo "bin" folder. That file will be the result of how you do the build... WinRE, downloaded WinPE or use offline WinPE.”
https://www.easyuefi.com/forums/thread-4...l#pid12622
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
(assembled from multiple sources)
If a user has already created an HBS Emergency Disk using a Microsoft download or, if that was not checked, from the local Windows Recovery files on the computer, the option to select to use the .
OPE file, as described by @
Froggie, will no longer appear.
The "
Re-create WinPE image ISO" feature introduced in V5.8 automatically deletes the old
winpe.iso. However, please note that this feature does
not delete the
winpe.wim file, so to again get the option to select the .
OPE file reappear, you must manually delete the
winpe.wim file. This file can be found in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Hasleo\Hasleo Backup Suite\bin\WADK\Windows Preinstallation Environment\amd64\winpe.wim.
NOTICE: If users download/unzip the
WinPEDownloader.zip file, security software, included Windows SmartScreen, antivirus, and anti-malware software like Malwarebytes Standard Premium, will all falsely “detect” the file as malicious.
The WinPEDownloader.zip file is
SAFE. It contains
no viruses, or any other kind of malware. The issue is caused by the fact that the file does
not currently have a digital code-signing certificate, an issue that will be addressed in the future by the Hasleo Team.
Dismiss all warnings, and proceed. To any scanning antivirus or anti-malware programs, add exception(s) for the file(s) falsely detected, to prevent the scanners repeatedly reporting false detection(s).
To run
WinPEDownloader.exe, double-click the file, and ignore all warnings. The resulting Hasleo Offline
WinPE.OPE file will be found in the folder where the original
WinPEDownloader.zip file is located, and can be used for future creation of new Hasleo Emergency Disks, when recommended by HBS in the Release Notes for new versions. It will be much faster because no downloads are involved.
Some users with high-resolution displays may see that the HBS-ED GUI box is very small. To correct that issue, delete the
qt.conf file in the following folder within your Hasleo Backup Suite installation folder:
C:\Program Files\Hasleo\Hasleo Backup Suite\bin\WINPE\Program Files\Hasleo Backup Suite\bin\qt.conf. Then, recreate your HBS-ED.
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