5.0 Creating a Windows PE Emergency Recovery Disk

This section explains how to create a bootable Emergency Recovery Disk (ERD) using Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE). When it is booted, the ERD provides access to the Emergency Recovery application you can use to perform recovery operations on a device.

IMPORTANT:ZENworks Cool Solutions provides a Windows Powershell script that automates the creation of Windows PE ERDs. For details, see the Windows Powershell script to create a Windows PE emergency recovery disk for ZENworks Full Disk Encryption article.