Winpe add drivers windows 7

This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Tip This topic covers how to add drivers into mounted images for deployment. To learn how to add a driver on a running Windows PC, see Add a driver online in audit mode or Install a plug and play device.

Note To add drivers to an offline image, you must use a technician computer running Windows 10 or later, Windows Server or later, or Windows PE for Windows 10 or later. Warning Removing a boot-critical driver package can make the offline Windows image unbootable.

Note All drivers in the directory and subdirectories that are referenced in the answer file are added to the image. Note If you need drivers for Windows PE to see the local hard disk drive or a network, you must use the windowsPE configuration pass of an answer file to add drivers to the Windows PE driver store and to reflect boot-critical drivers required by Windows PE.

Note When you include multiple device driver paths by adding multiple PathAndCredentials list items, you must increment the value of Key for each path. In this article. You can mounting and customize a WinPE image following the same process as any other Windows image.

In addition to customizations that are common to Windows and winPE images, such as drivers and packages, WinPE also has some customizations specific to it. This topic covers the common ways to customize a WinPE image.

You can add multiple drivers to an image by using one command, but it's often easier to troubleshoot problems if you add each driver package individually. To learn more about drivers, see Add device drivers. When you add a WinPE optional component, make sure that you add both the optional component and its associated language packs. Modify Startnet. For Plug and Play or networking support, make sure that you include a call to wpeinit in your customized Startnet. For more info, see Wpeinit and Startnet.

If your app requires temporary storage, or if WinPE becomes unresponsive when it runs an app, you may need to increase the amount of temporary storage scratch space allocated to WinPE. To automatically launch a shell or application that runs when WinPE starts, add the path location to the Winpeshl.

For more info, see Winpeshl. WinPE reserves memory on the X: drive to unpack the WinPE files, plus additional temporary file storage, known as scratch space, that can be used by your applications. Valid values are 32, 64, , , or Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.

Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. The default WinPE image includes support for many popular network adapters, and supports many of the same networking commands as in Windows. Windows PE includes a basic set of network drivers for many popular network adapters, and supports many of the same networking commands as in Windows.

While in Windows PE, you can connect or map to a shared network folder by using the net use command. We recommend WinPE: Mount and Customize , especially for any driver that requires a reboot during the installation process.