WIE Builder - Adding Drivers For PE
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First I would like to say thanks for all your hard work on this project. I am sure I am not the only one that is having this issue, and would like to see an option in the WIE builder to add drivers in an easier way, rather than single INF files.
This journey start with working on new Dell laptops, with network drivers. and RAID drivers, to get an image to upload and download, without having to turn RAID off in BIOS, which means you need to do a rebuild on the box. I also seen, many having the same issue, will not boot to the server, or not seeing the drive.
Could we have in the WIE builder, where we just pick the folder with the drivers, and the have it run the DISM /add driver command? Granted we could do the whole mounting of the boot.wim and then run the command (which is what i did to get all working), but would be nicer to do it inside the portal.
Thanks,
Dave
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I'm not sure I'm following you. This already exists, When you build WinPE you just need to select which drivers you want to add to it. I have all the RVST drivers packaged together and I just check the box when I want to embed it into the WinPE, no problems with drives being detected.
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@theopenem_admin I did not see that, i am seeing a box that. In the WIE Gen screen (V1.5.6), i have Additional Drivers block, but does not let me add them. Although someplace, i did see a block that has Add Drivers, but in the default text it said something like "INF only", adding single files takes a long time.
does what you shown me, do the whole DISM.... /Add-Drivers.../recurse / forceunsigned?
where is that screenshot at? there is so much to this, i have not burned all the locations into my head yet LOL.So far, i have been very impressed, and would love to supoort the project in any way i can, whether it is in a donation, help with development, or even testing.
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Yes, it does the whole dism thing. The driver need to be in inf format, that's how winpe works, you can't just drop an exe into winpe, the drivers need to be extracted. For them to show up in the winpe builder page, you need to add them as a file copy module with the is driver option checked. I typically just add all of my drivers to a single zipped upload, but you can add multiple files to the module if you want.
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These are the 3 intel rst drivers that most people need for dell drive detection in RAID.
There is also one newer one 20.1 I think, it's hard to track down.