Would someone be able to explain the purpose of injecting drivers into WinPE if the image that gets deployed doesn't install/get the new/updated drivers? Obviously, I am doing something wrong. Thanks.

Hello thinfine,

The reasoning behind injecting drivers in to the wim image is to provide the drivers in order to use a certain piece of hardware.

Lets say you had an embedded RAID controller on your motherboard. If you went in to a WinPE environment, you would not be able to see the RAID controller and hence the hard drives attached to it.

Now there is another reason we inject drivers in to the image. Take for example what I do.

I actually have two seperate images, one for deploying and one for the bootable environment.

The deploy image I inject drivers in to the image so that when I load the standard image on a machine, it will grab the drivers it needs in order to function. And I also inject drivers in to the bootable image so I can see my hardware.

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WHICKED
Hewlett Packard