How to mount an ISO Image in Windows 7 WinPE

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I have a 16GB USB flash drive that I want to set up like this:

It boots WinPE
It has useful diagnostic and system maintenance tools
There are several .ISO files of operating system install DVDs on the flash drive
I can mount one of the .ISO files and start an OS install.

Perhaps there's a way I can use Virtual CloneDrive within WinPE?

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Maybe you can try ImDisk. I've used this to install Windows 7 from a USB disk where Windows wouldn't install if it did not see its files on a DVD. I used the steps here to install the driver from the command line.

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My preference is Slysoft Virtual Clone Drive. It's great because:

you can mount/dismount by right-clicking on the drive
the drive remembers what has been mounted before
you can mount an iso by right-clicking the ISO itself.

No issues with device driver signing, etc. I dumped Daemon Tools a while ago. Using it on Win7 7100 64 bit with no problem. Feels quite fast.

Windows Server 2008 install: wpeinit -unattend:unattend.xml does nothing

Thanks for the suggestions, redblacktree, but the XML file was in fact well formed, and it was working fine off a USB key.

I found out I could use /unattend with setup.exe, so I copied the entire Windows install DVD to a file server, booted the same WinPE image via PXE, then ran:

net use w: \\server\share
w:
cd x64
setup.exe /unattend:w:\unattend.xml

And it worked fine!

The other gotcha is that I had to run

wpeutil InitializeNetwork

before I could see the network.

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