Creating a BOOTABLE WinPE ISO File of HBS v. 4.9.1

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Maybe, as a newbie to this forum, I may be obtuse and overlooking the obvious. If so, I would be grateful if someone can undeceive me. 

My problem is the following:

I have always preferred making System Backups after having booted my computer from a bootable USB drive. So whenever there is a new update of Hasleo Backup Suite, first thing I do create go to Tools in the Navigation Bar and click Emergency Disk. Finally I copy the resulting  ISO File to a bootable USB drive (created with Ventoy).  bootable WinPE media

This worked a real treat, until the recent update of HBS to version 4.9.1 In this latest version, when I click  Tools, next Emergency Disk, for some reason, I no longer get the option "Add a driver"nor the option "Download WinPe Components"; these two options are simply invisible. The Emergency Disk Tool Tool unceremoniously skips these two optiions ,though in the end it does produce an ISO File. 

When I copy this ISO File to my bootable USB drive and then reboot my computer from this bootable USB drive, I can run Hasleo Backup Suite, but almost immediately after I have started the programme, it spontaneously aborts itself and gives up the ghost.

Is there anyone who can explain this behaviour of the Emergency Disk Tool of Hasleo Backup Suite, or even someone who has similar experiences? incidentally, when looking in Explorer at my HASLEO folder, it also strikes me that the size of the ISO File created by the Emergency Disk Tool of HBS version 4.9.1 is considerably smaller (something like 380 Mb) compared with the ISO Files created by earlier versions of HBS. Could this difference in size be due to no WinPE components being incorporated into the ISO file produced by HBS 4.9.1? Your guess is as good as mine .........

The first thing I want to say is that in recent releases we haven't made any changes to the functionality of creating WinPE. HBS will not show the window to download WinPE components/add drivers if you have already created WinPE, so we recommend you to remove the ISO file in the bin directory and try to create WinEP again. 

Regarding the size of WinPE ISO files, the size of ISO files created by different versions of Windows is different, ISO files created by earlier versions of Windows are usually smaller than those created by newer versions (e.g. ISOs created by Windows 7 are smaller than those created by Windows 10), and ISO files created by 32-bit Windows are smaller than those created by 64-bit Windows.