Install disc for multiple computers

[gavin0001]

Hi All,

I have multiple laptops, all from the same manufacturer, however they are different models. I was wondering, if it would be possible to create a windows install disc, that has apps preinstalled, and is able to install the required drivers for different models. The disc would have to be easily customizable to keep up with the changing models, I was thinking something along the lines of a seperate folder for each model, and a batch file style script to install said drivers. It doesnt particulary matter if the drivers and/or apps are slipstreamed, or installed post windows install.

Basically, I just want a disc that can be placed in the drive, which is then booted from, windows is installed, drivers for the laptop are installed, and apps are installed and configured. So my question is, does anyone know if what I have described possible?

Cheers, Gavin

[gkar]

Works for me, I tried it with drivers for 3 different motherboards on 3 different computers. nForce4, nForce3 and SiS 755. Problem is it will need 3 different activations from the same Product Key unless you have Corporate XP.

Edited September 22, 2008 by gkar

[gavin0001]

Yeah, the activation thing isn't really a problem as we do have corparate xp.

[gkar]

Shouldn't be a problem then.

One thing to add. I have 3 different nVidia video cards so I had to go to the nVidia website to find the latest driver that supported all 3 video cards (6800, Ti4800 and 7600GT) to avoid adding more than one video driver which may not work right . For whatever reason some nVidia drivers left out some of the cards. I ended up finding one driver in their archives that supported all 3 cards.

good luck

Edited September 23, 2008 by gkar

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