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3. Adding Drivers To Windows Iso
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5. Add Drivers To Windows Image

All the operations of modifying of the Windows 7 ISO image, described below, are performed on a computer running Windows 10. First of all, find USB 3.0 drivers for your chipset and download them from the vendor website (in our example, it is Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver for Intel® 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family). Sep 03, 2015  After using the MediaCreation Tool to create a bootable USB thumb driver for Windows 10, is there a way to add additional device drivers to the thumb driver? The reason I ask is I'm trying to do a clean install on a tablet but Windows 10 doesn't seem to come with the drivers the touch screen. Sean, You are correct. I tried the procedure suggested. Jan 15, 2019  This manual is about the integration of device drivers into a Windows image and can be used both on desktop editions of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and on Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2. In modern Windows editions you can add drivers to the installation ISO image in two ways: using the DISM utility; using the PowerShell CLI. To add driver to ISO file, please follow the steps, Run PowerISO. Choose 'Tools DISM Tool.' PowerISO shows DISM Tool dialog. Click the page 'Add driver'. The 'Add driver' page will show. Check the radio 'Patch driver to image file', and enter the source Windows installation ISO file path name. Specify a folder which contains the driver files or specify the driver inf file path name. Check the other options if necessary.

Reinstalling Windows operating system can be quite a tedious task. You need to install Windows first, download and install drivers from hardware manufacture’s website, and then install your favorite programs one-by-one. Users who often reinstall Windows might want to integrate hardware drivers into the installation DVD or ISO to avoid manually installing all drivers post Windows installation.

In this post I am going to take you through the process of adding network drivers into a boot image, mainly for the purpose of PXE booting machines. This will involve using 'Deployment Image Servicing and Management' (DISM.exe) to import the machine specific network drivers (.inf files) into the boot image. How to Inject Driver into a Windows 10 Install Image utilizing PowerShell. First of all you want to obtain and place all the required gadget drivers in a single listing (for every driver you want to create a separate folder). See following tutorial, it shows you how to add drivers to ISO: DISM - Add or Remove Drivers on an Offline Image If your Windows 10 install media is made with Media Creation Tool, the ESD file install.esd needs to be converted to WIM file install.wim first.

If you’re a Windows 8 user and looking for a way to integrate drivers in the installation DVD or ISO, you can follow this guide to easily integrate drivers into the ISO.

While it’s possible to integrate drivers without using third-party tools, the procedure requires opening the Command Prompt and executing a few commands. As not all Windows users are comfortable using the Command Prompt, we’re going to use an easy-to-use software named WinReducer8 to integrate drivers into the Windows 8 ISO.

WinReducer8 is a free tool designed to customize Windows 8 installation by integrating drivers, tweaking the the setup, and removing unwanted features to create a lighter version of the OS.

Complete the given below instructions to integrate drivers into Windows 8 ISO.

Step 1: Visit your hardware manufacture’s website and download all drivers that you wish to integrate in the installation DVD or ISO file.

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Step 2: Next step is to extract your Windows 8 ISO file to a new folder using 7-Zip, WinZip or any other file archiving software. And if you have a Windows 8 DVD, simply copy all files from the DVD to a new folder.

Step 3: Head over to this page, download the latest version of WinReducer8 zip file, extract the file onto your desktop to get WinReducer8 folder, open up the folder, and then double-click on the executable to fire up the program.

Step 4: Once WinReducer8 has been launched, click Open button to browse to the new folder containing extracted or copied files of Windows 8 setup.

NOTE: By default, WinReducer8 creates a new folder under WinReducer8 folder containing the executable to mount the WIM. If you want to change the mount folder (if you don’t have at least 4GB of free space), click Change Mount Folder button to select a folder in safer location with at least 4GB of free disk space. You can delete this folder once you are done with the job.

Step 5: Select your Windows 8 edition and then click Mount button to begin mounting required files.

WinReducer8 might take a few minutes to complete this job. So be patient until you see the following screen.

Step 6: Next, switch to the Customization tab and then click System tab (see the picture) to choose your driver’s folder. Check the Drivers box to browse to the folder containing hardware drivers.

Step 7: Finally, switch to Apply tab and click Launch button and then click Yes for the confirmation prompt to start integrating selected drivers in the setup. Once WinReducer8 finishes its job, you will see the following screen.

Select Save in WIM file and create a new ISO option, choose a folder to save the ISO file, enter a name for your ISO file and finally click Save button. WinReducer8 might take a few minutes to complete this job. You can then burn the ISO to a DVD or create a bootable USB using the ISO file to install Windows 8 from USB flash drive. Good luck!

You can use DISM to install or remove driver (.inf) files in an offline Windows or WinPE image. You can either add or remove the drivers directly by using the command prompt, or apply an unattended answer file to a mounted .wim, .ffu, .vhd, or .vhdx file.

When you use DISM to install a device driver to an offline image, the device driver is added to the driver store in the offline image. When the image is booted, Plug and Play (PnP) runs and associates the drivers in the store to the corresponding devices on the computer.

Note

To add drivers to a Windows 10 image offline, you must use a technician computer running Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) for Windows 10. Driver signature verification may fail when you add a driver to a Windows 10 image offline from a technician computer running any other operating system.

To learn how to add a driver on a running Windows PC, see Add a driver online in audit mode or Install a plug and play device. To learn how to add a driver to a PC running WinPE, see Drvload command line options.

Driver types

• .inf-style drivers: Many drivers include an information file (with an .inf extension) to help install the driver. These can be installed using tools described in this topic.
• .exe-style drivers: Drivers without an .inf file often must be installed like typical Windows desktop applications. To learn how to add these, see Add a driver online in Audit Mode
• Boot-critical drivers: Graphics and storage drivers may sometimes need to be added to the Windows image (as shown in this topic), as well as the Windows PE image, and in the Windows recovery (WinRE) image.

Add drivers to an offline Windows image

To add drivers to an offline image, you have to mount an image prior to adding drivers.

If you're adding drivers to a WinPE image, you can add them to the WinPE image in the output folder you specified when you ran copype, for example: C:WinPE_amd64mediasourcesboot.wim. This ensures that drivers will be included in WinPE each time you build WinPE media from that folder.

1. Mount a Windows image. For example:

   See Mount and modify a Windows image using DISM for more info.

2. Add a driver to the image.

   To install all of the drivers from a folder and all its subfolders, point to the folder and use the /Recurse option.

   To see all DISM driver servicing command line options, see DISM driver servicing command-line options.

Warning

Using /Recurse can be handy, but it's easy to bloat your image with it. Some driver packages include multiple .inf driver packages, which often share payload files from the same folder. During installation, each .inf driver package is expanded into a separate folder. Each individual folder has a copy of the payload files. We've seen cases where a popular driver in a 900MB folder added 10GB to images when added with the /Recurse option.

3. Check to see if the driver was added. Drivers added to the Windows image are named Oem*.inf. This guarantees unique naming for newly added drivers. For example, the files MyDriver1.inf and MyDriver2.inf are renamed Oem0.inf and Oem1.inf.

4. Commit the changes and unmount the image.

Remove drivers from an offline Windows image

1. At an elevated command prompt, mount the offline Windows image:

2. Remove a specific driver from the image. Multiple drivers can also be removed on one command line.

Warning

Removing a boot-critical driver package can make the offline Windows image unbootable. For more information, see DISM Driver Servicing Command-Line Options.

3. Commit the changes and unmount the image.

Add drivers to an offline Windows image by using an unattended answer file

1. Gather the device driver .inf files that you intend to install on the Windows image.

Note

All drivers in the directory and subdirectories that are referenced in the answer file are added to the image. You should manage the answer file and these directories carefully to address concerns about increasing the size of the image with unnecessary driver packages.

2. Use Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) to create an answer file that contains the paths to the device drivers that you want to install.

   • Add the Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPEDriverPathsPathAndCredentialsCredentials component to your answer file in the offlineServicing configuration pass.

   For each location that you intend to access, add a separate PathAndCredentials list item by right-clicking on DriverPaths in the Answer File pane and clicking Insert New PathAndCredentials.

   See Configure components and settings in an answer file for information on how to modify an answer file.

3. For each path in Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE, specify the path to the device driver and the credentials that are used to access the file, if the file is on a network share.

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Note

When you include multiple device driver paths by adding multiple PathAndCredentials list items, you must increment the value of Key for each path. For example, you can add two separate driver paths where the value of Key for the first path is equal to 1 and the value of Key for the second path is equal to 2.

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4. Save the answer file and exit Windows SIM. The answer file must resemble the following sample.

5. Mount the Windows image that you intend to install the drivers to by using DISM:

   If you're working with a VHD or FFU, specify /Index:1.

6. Apply the answer file to the mounted Windows image:

   For more information about how to apply an answer file, see DISM Unattended Servicing Command-Line Options.

   The .inf files referenced in the path in the answer file are added to the Windows image.

7. Check to see if the driver was added. Drivers added to the Windows image are named Oem*.inf. This guarantees unique naming for newly added drivers. For example, the files MyDriver1.inf and MyDriver2.inf are renamed Oem0.inf and Oem1.inf.

   For example, type:

8. Unmount the .wim file and commit the changes. For example, type:

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If you need drivers for WinPE to see the local hard disk drive or a network, you must use the windowsPE configuration pass of an answer file to add drivers to the WinPE driver store and to reflect boot-critical drivers required by WinPE. For more information, see Add Device Drivers to Windows During Windows Setup.

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