Sometimes you cannot use pxe to boot from WDS and re-image your computer (pxe damaged or you need to re-image in the field far from WDS and office LAN). In this situation you may:

• export necessary WDS image to wim file
• you will need 16gb usb flash drive (depends on the size of your customized in WDS system image)
• create by windows usb tool ordinary Windows 7 USB install disk
• rename your wim file to install.wim and copy it to USB “sources” folder just replacing existing install.wim file
• if you now start booting from a such USB disk you will finally without WDS offline without pxe or even without network install your company standardized WDS system image

ps

in a such way you can also prepare quickly ERD/DaRT disk – replace boot.wim of live Windows by ERD boot.wim (i prefer prior rename original files to install-orig.wim and boot-orig.wim — who knows maybe i will need them again :))

ps

surely, you can create complex USB boot disk with options what to boot/install and so on – my post just covers way how simply and quickly (maybe just for one time) solve the task in the field with minimal available tools, not scratching head remembering how to create multi-boot USB disk – all you need is to prepare/export wim in advance and store it on your mobile USB disk (not that USB which you will format and use for booting according to my post 🙂 )