Solved How to add drivers at USB's WinPE

hsehestedt said:

I've never tried DISM++, maybe because I have this hangup about trying to always use native Windows or Microsoft stuff where I can, but I think that I better check it out to at least familiarize myself with what it can do. It seems that a lot of people really like it.

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garlin said:

DISM++ is fine as a tool. The problem is it's not open-source, and nobody really knows who the Chinese devs are. They don't exactly manage a website to identify themselves and allow the ability to report bugs and get support.

Some users don't care about that, and are happy. But the pool of Windows experts who know DISM is probably greater if you need help.

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SIW2 said:

Nonsense I have been using dism++ for years.

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Persona78 said:

Hi!
I don´t know if it works for you but i do like this:

1. I create a folder, extract drivers to there (is supose to create another folder with drivers name)
2. i have this batch:
3. Code:

   @echo off
   title Drivers Tool
   setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
   
   :: BatchGotAdmin
   :-------------------------------------
   REM  --> Check for permissions
       IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" EQU "amd64" (
   >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config\system"
   ) ELSE (
   >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
   )
   
   REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
   if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
       @echo. & @echo. & @echo [1m[31mRequesting administrative privileges...[0m
       goto UACPrompt
   ) else ( goto gotAdmin )
   
   :UACPrompt
       echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
       set params= %*
       echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params:"=""%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
   
       "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
       del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
       exit /B
   
   
   :gotAdmin
   ::To CD to the location of the batch script file (%0)
   CD /d "%~dp0"
   Set /p dir="Drivers folder name: "
   Set /p dest="Offline mounted image root: "
   CD /D "%dir%"
   FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN ('DIR /S /B "*.inf"') DO Dism /Image:"%dest%" /Add-Driver /Driver:"%%A"
   endlocal
   @echo Done!
   @echo.
   pause
   exit

4. Copy/Save code as .bat and paste in the main folder, not drivers folder .
5. Execute it!

Note: Desteny must be a mounted Offline image! And .exe drivers can be extracted! ( can use 7z, winrar, etc)

I hope it helps.

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hsehestedt said:

You can eliminate any the logic for parsing through all the drivers and installing them one at a time by just telling DISM to recurse all folders. It will automagically install all drivers in the folder and subfolders.

Example:

DISM /Image:C:\Mount /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\Drivers /Recurse

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Persona78 said:

Yes. But the objective was a specific driver.

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