Driver during windows 7/vista install

[gotenks98]

Basically what I am trying now is to have windows pull drivers from a store on a usb drive. We have a few systems that can not be put on the network due to research privacy issues. What I would normally do is have the drivers come from the network during a normal windows install but how would you do this if you wanted to drivers to come from a usb drive in which you are installing windows. Normally I would just slipstream it but this would be a ton of drivers creating driver bloat. In another post I asked few weeks back I asked on how to reduce or eliminate the bloat. I think I found a way around that but I am not sure how to set it up from the local drive instead of the network. I remember a long time ago with vista this was possible using some kind of cd rom environmental variable but I just can not find the documentation on this again.

[maxXPsoft]

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Adding Boot critical and all other drivers

[gotenks98]

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Adding Boot critical and all other drivers

This is exactly what I am looking for. I just got a question how do you test this in a vm to see if it pulls in only certain drivers?

Also can this be done for windows updates? Normally I would slipstream but it just takes too long and this method would really help on saving me alot of time.

Small Edit: Does anyone know if its possible to have multiple versions of windows 7 or vista to use the same autounattend? I know 32 and 64 probably couldnt but what about say havine one file that will work for ultimate and professional?

Edited September 2, 2011 by gotenks98

[maxXPsoft]

It process all driver sub folders in that folder

No to WU. Get sp1, inject all WU and then use as base image

People have done that with 64 and 32

Go back and read the first link I gave you and look for SP1 original iso, over there it will tell you how to install different images by manipulating the ei.cfg. I simply delete or rename and can install any image then. If you don't specify in xml then it will ask which you want to install

Edited September 2, 2011 by maxXPsoft