Boot Disk Creator requirements for creating WinPE

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

Requirements for creating WinPE using Boot Disk Creator (BDC)

Environment

GSS 3.x

Resolution

For client operating systems, Broadcom recommends that the Boot Disk Creator (BDC) is running only on x64 architectures.

The table below lists the recommended requirements for managing different versions of WinPE using Boot Disk Creator:

WinPE version	Requirements
WinPE 3.1
WinPE 4.0
WinPE 5.X
WinPE 10 1703
WinPE 10 1803
WinPE 10 1809	Starting with Windows 10, version 1809, the Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) is released separately from the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). See KB 185020
WinPE 10 1903
WinPE 10 2004
WinPE 10 2022
WinPE 11 21H2	BDC installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 or older with use of WinPE11 ADK is not supported
WinPE 11 22H2	BDC installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 or older with use of WinPE11 ADK is not supported

Note: This article is for the BDC tool. If nothing is said in table above, then the mentioned WinPE may be used in BDC tool running on any OS platform supported by Ghost Standard Tools (GST) or Ghost Solution Suite (GSS).

Supported OSes are documented in the GSS Platform Support Matrix. For instance, GST installations are supported on Windows 10 21H2 / Windows Server 2016 and newer.  Older OSes are EOL'ed by Microsoft already.