Inject drivers into boot.wim windows 7

You should still be pointed to the correct directory, so now issue the following commands to update the 'install. Wait for the transfer to finish. This is going to take a little bit longer to copy back over to the flash drive because the files going back in are larger than they were before due to the driver files that you've added to it.

Take out the flash drive and pop it into the machine you want to reinstall Windows 7 on. Thank you all for reading through this. These commands can be adapted to suit whichever folder names you want to use. Good luck! I only wish I had found this 3 hours ago It worked exactly as your directions said it would, and Windows 7 is installing now!

Question for point 6: In my Windows image, I have unlocked all the versions, so which one should i pick? It doesn't work for me yet.

In my version I have unlocked all of the versions, starter to ultimate. I chose to mount it to proff. Sounds like something didn't go as planned if you did the process I outlined above. Either that or the driver that you added to the USB drive isn't the right one for that computer. For some reason I'm unable to mount the install. Yes, and the boot. I am using a Dell proprietary Win7 installation image, though. That might have something to do with it. I don't believe this process is restricted to specific images, but you want to have the access to modify files in those directories.

Once the Boot. Wims are replaced on the core server, the PXE services on elected PXE reps will automatically start to download the updated wims the next time they poll the core server. How often the PXE reps check the core server for updated Boot. Wims is determined by the polling frequency setting for that network in Self-Electing Subnet Services.

The polling frequency is set to 15 minutes by default but can be modified to increase or decrease the frequency.

If desired, you can manually replace the updated Boot. Wims from the core server to a specific PXE rep to immediately test the new wims. To do so, navigate to the PXE rep and delete the old Boot. If you are using PXE boot thumb drives you will need to rebuild them with the updated Boot. Wednesday, May 19, PM. I followed the step you were using to inject network drivers in my WIM file and the same thing happened. My image disappeared from the list. Maybe this will help. Tuesday, May 25, PM. Hi, Can you see this boot image if you do not add the driver to it when PXE booting?

Thursday, May 20, AM. Yes I can. Do you think is driver compatibility issue? Hi, Thank you for the reply. Friday, May 21, AM. Tuesday, May 25, AM. I have tried that, but not luck. Monday, June 14, AM. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Tip This topic covers how to add drivers into mounted images for deployment.

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. Note To add drivers to an offline image, you must use a technician computer running Windows 10 or later, Windows Server or later, or Windows PE for Windows 10 or later. Warning Removing a boot-critical driver package can make the offline Windows image unbootable. Note All drivers in the directory and subdirectories that are referenced in the answer file are added to the image.

Note If you need drivers for Windows PE 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 Windows PE driver store and to reflect boot-critical drivers required by Windows PE.

Note When you include multiple device driver paths by adding multiple PathAndCredentials list items, you must increment the value of Key for each path.