Creating a Windows PE boot CD for Dell Poweredge Servers

For the latest Poweredge servers from Dell, there is no standard Windows PE that embeds the Perc 5/i RAID controller as well as the network card. The solution consists of creating a tailor made boot-CD-ROM (for disaster recovery) with Windows PE. Download and install the latest WinPE version Inject the network card drivers into the BartPE environment Download driver for Broadcomm NetXtreme II Family from the DELL website Unzip the driver files and copy only the folder “/broadcom/ris_drivers” folder to the “\pebuilder3110a\drivers\Net folder” (so the two files are stored in “\pebuilder3110a\drivers\Net\RIS_Drivers”) In this folder rename “b06nd.inf” into “b06nd51x.inf” (yes, the .inf file must have the same name as the .sys file in order for BartPE to work) Inject the driver for the Perc 5/I Raid controller Download the driver file “R120960.EXE” from the DELL website Unpack the file and copy the folder “\DELL\drivers\R120960″ into your BartPE installation at “\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter”, so the 11 files are stored in the folder “C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter\R120960″ Run PE Builder (Note: for the Windows files I used disk 1 of Windows 2003 Server R2) Burn the ISO file to a CD and walk to your server to test it That’s it. I finally added ghost and now I can do a bare-metal recovery for our DELL servers.