Hi all,

I am looking for a manual way to include my drivers into the original windows 7 dvd, i dont want to use any applications just want windows to install my drivers. which are: chipset, display, sound, monitor, keyboard & mouse

Any ideas please?

You can either have your unattend execute the installer packages silently after install, or you can recreate your source and use DISM to inject the drivers.

You can either have your unattend execute the installer packages silently after install, or you can recreate your source and use DISM to inject the drivers.

thanks for the quick reply, any tutorials about both?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799258(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744355(WS.10).aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=886CD1DD-91AA-4BF4-8557-DECEDEF7FA5D&displaylang=en

You can copy all .inf based drivers say to sub folders on your dvd sources

DVD\sources\$OEM$\$1\Drivers create folders in red

Then add the path in your xml. Look at <Driverpaths>

http://www.msfn.org/board/your-seven-here-t139572-pid-892782.html/page__view__findpost__p__892782

Edited April 2, 201016 yr by maxXPsoft

You can copy all .inf based drivers say to sub folders on your dvd sources

DVD\sources\$OEM$\$1\Drivers create folders in red

Then add the path in your xml. Look at <Driverpaths>

http://www.msfn.org/board/your-seven-here-t139572-pid-892782.html/page__view__findpost__p__892782

may thanks think i will use this method, however all i need is a very simple xml to tell windows the drivers to load, how do i do this please

ner, I am in the process of leaning what I can about W7 and came across this link to the WAIK Guide (about 2.5 MB). I think it is also contained in the WAIK DL. It contains three .chm files including unattend.chm. There is a good explanation of the xml used in the install process. This link has been posted here before, but is very hard to find. Using the unattend.chm and searching on driver or driverpath are good places to start. Hope it is useful to you and others. Enjoy, John

Backup your drivers with DriverBackup and integrate them with DISM is best

Its pretty easy, I made a vid that includes this: http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/7384-video-windows-7-aik-deployment-101-added-part-3/

Edited April 4, 201016 yr by ricktendo64

Backup your drivers with DriverBackup and integrate them with DISM is best

Its pretty easy, I made a vid that includes this: http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/7384-video-windows-7-aik-deployment-101-added-part-3/

thanks for you help, but i am not looking to injet them into the install.wim, was really looking to use the oem/drivers folder option, but just need to get windows where to find and install the drivers, see i dont want an unattended install either

Backup your drivers with DriverBackup and integrate them with DISM is best

Its pretty easy, I made a vid that includes this: http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/7384-video-windows-7-aik-deployment-101-added-part-3/

not able to view or download your vides either

http://www.msfn.org/board/your-seven-here-t139572-pid-892782.html/page__view__findpost__p__892782

may thanks think i will use this method, however all i need is a very simple xml to tell windows the drivers to load, how do i do this please

just remove everything you don't want except DriverPaths and the <settings pass="offlineServicing">

pass, you can remove all other '<settings pass=', drop xml on root of dvd and Win setup will place Driver folder on root of drive and the xml part points Win where to find. Thats easiest way

disregard I see you using a Tool

Edited April 4, 201016 yr by maxXPsoft

http://www.msfn.org/board/your-seven-here-t139572-pid-892782.html/page__view__findpost__p__892782

may thanks think i will use this method, however all i need is a very simple xml to tell windows the drivers to load, how do i do this please

just remove everything you don't want except DriverPaths and the <settings pass="offlineServicing">

pass, you can remove all other '<settings pass=', drop xml on root of dvd and Win setup will place Driver folder on root of drive and the xml part points Win where to find. Thats easiest way

disregard I see you using a Tool

Many thanks for your reply, that will do the trick, i am just going try it out, as do not really want to use any tools, like the idea of having the drivers within a dir so that i can update them easily. thank you

http://www.msfn.org/board/your-seven-here-t139572-pid-892782.html/page__view__findpost__p__892782

may thanks think i will use this method, however all i need is a very simple xml to tell windows the drivers to load, how do i do this please

just remove everything you don't want except DriverPaths and the <settings pass="offlineServicing">

pass, you can remove all other '<settings pass=', drop xml on root of dvd and Win setup will place Driver folder on root of drive and the xml part points Win where to find. Thats easiest way

disregard I see you using a Tool

Many thanks for your reply, that will do the trick, i am just going try it out, as do not really want to use any tools, like the idea of having the drivers within a dir so that i can update them easily. thank you

can not get this to work, see my xlm what is wrong please help?

component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="Intel" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"

language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS"

<DriverPaths>OEm,/Drivers

<PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">

<Path>%systemdrive%\Drivers</Path>

</PathAndCredentials>

</DriverPaths>

</component>

name this AutoUnattend.xml and make sure you edit with Notepad

you can look at the sample, a lot of stuff you won't have to type

you need more than that like beginning of file and ending, forget some don't mess with xml

Added generalize also to make the drivers persistent

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="offlineServicing">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DriverPaths>
                <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">
                    <Path>%systemdrive%\Drivers</Path>
                </PathAndCredentials>
            </DriverPaths>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="generalize">
                <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                        <PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
                </component>
        </settings>
</unattend>

Edited April 6, 201016 yr by maxXPsoft

name this AutoUnattend.xml and make sure you edit with Notepad

you can look at the sample, a lot of stuff you won't have to type

you need more than that like beginning of file and ending, forget some don't mess with xml

Added generalize also to make the drivers persistent

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="offlineServicing">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DriverPaths>
                <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">
                    <Path>%systemdrive%\Drivers</Path>
                </PathAndCredentials>
            </DriverPaths>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="generalize">
                <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                        <PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
                </component>
        </settings>
</unattend>

ok many thanks will try and copy yours into the a AutoUnattend.xml, and test that woks, thanks