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I'm running WinPE on a disc. I believe it's PE 2.0. It's being run on a laptop with USB 3.0 ports, as I'm sure that may matter. I want to connect either a USB thumb drive or USB hard drive but it's not recognizing the USB hard drive. Is it supposed to automatically detect and install drivers or are a set of commands I'm supposed to run to get it to recognize the external hard drive?

I would even be open to connecting it to the network and retrieving data in that fashion.

Any help would be appreciated.

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    Upgrade to a newer version of WinPE then; 2.0 is ancient; 3.0 is Windows 7; so try that
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 25, 2014 at 2:42

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I'd strongly suggest you do what Ramhound said, but if that's not an option you can download drivers and inject them to your WinPE image using the servicing utilities:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749350%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn613857.aspx

This links are for different versions (Vista and Win8).
I don't have access to WinPe 2, but one of them should work (assuming you have WAIK installed).

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