How to create VistaPE with PGP WDE and Wireless Networking Drivers
February 3, 2012 Leave a comment
The PGP WDE section of this post is copied from the excellent guide at spiceworks.com, I’m recreating it in case that page ever disappears: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1366
How to create a VistaPE ISO using WinBuilder: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/631
Wireless Networking in VistaPE:
To enable wireless networking to work use WinBuilder, add and edit the plugin for PENetworkManager. Download and extract the wireless drivers required by the the hardware and link to them as additional drivers in the plugin configuration:
When booting into VistaPE wait for the hardware detection to complete before launching PENetworkManager, you should then be able to configure the wireless adapter and connect to wireless networks.
Integrating PGP drivers into a VistaPE ISO
If you have ever tried to use a boot disk to run an anti-virus or malware scan on computer running PGP encryption, you have seen it is not an easy thing to do. The boot disk will likely report the PGP encrypted drive as unformatted.
To get around this, we are going to integrate the PGP drivers into our VistaPE ISO so we can burn it to disk or put it on a USB stick. This is an add-on to the previous How-To “Creating a VistaPE boot disk / ISO” located here http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/631
Requirements:
– Completed creating a VistaPE boot disk / ISO – http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/631
– Installed version of PGP
– Download and install WAIK if you have not already done so – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7d4bc6d-15f3-4284-9123-679830d629f2&DisplayLang=en
– Password to unlock the PGP encrypted disk.
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Step 1Go to PGP website and download the proper PE Plug-in for your version of PGP. https://support.pgp.com/?faq=807 |
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Step 2Create a folder called WDE on the root of your C: drive – (C:\WDE). In this folder, place the following files from your local install of PGP. c:\Program Files\PGP Corporation\PGP Desktop\pgpbootb.bin |
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Step 3Create a folder called PGP on the root of your C: drive – (C:\PGP). |
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Step 4Open a command prompt and go to c:\program files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools and run the following command. Replace the first x86 with your system architecture (amd64, IA64, x86). copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86\ Note: VistaPE can be built on a x64 machine but only VistaPE 32-bit and not VistaPE 64-bit can be built right now. |
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Step 5Create a batch file called injectpgp.bat and put it in the Winbuilder076 folder. The contents follow: cd \ Note: If your paths are different you will have to fix the file to match your paths. Replace Winbuidler076\ with your own path. If successful you should see something similar to below. Where the WDE driver and tools have been installed into winpe. |
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Step 6Now back in WinBuilder goto the section under Finalize called “Create ISO/CD/USB” Click the Create a new ISO file (since the VistaPE.WIM file has now just been updated with the new version). This is basically to repackage the ISO since vistape.wim has been injected with the pgp plugin. |
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Step 7The ISO will be in your Winbuilder\ISO folder. You can burn this ISO to a CD or follow the directions here to but the ISO onto a USB stick. http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/633 |
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Step 8Once booted into VistaPE now PGPWDE should work from the command line. Hit the Start Button then click Run then put in cmd.exe and hit ok. pgpwde –enum |