Window 10 Custom Image Storage driver


tsgillx

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Hi,

I have created a working custom Windows 10 Pro image. I have trouble injecting the storage driver into the image.

When I boot from the USB stick, Windows 10 Setup cannot find the SSD drive. I downloaded the drivers also to the USB stick. I manually browse and load the driver from the USB stick and the SSD partition is visible and I can install the Windows 10 Pro. I have also autounattended.xml file which works fine too but it does not work on that specific workstation that needs specific storage drivers. How do I achieve this?

I would like to inject the drivers into the image and avoid the above bold marked step. I tried to inject the drivers into install.wim via dism but I had no luck. Do I miss something? Is there a working tutorial? I spend today but no luck till yet.

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tsgillx said:
Hi,

I have created a working custom Windows 10 Pro image. I have trouble injecting the storage driver into the image.

When I boot from the USB stick, Windows 10 Setup cannot find the SSD drive. I downloaded the drivers also to the USB stick. I manually browse and load the driver from the USB stick and the SSD partition is visible and I can install the Windows 10 Pro. I have also autounattended.xml file which works fine too but it does not work on that specific workstation that needs specific storage drivers. How do I achieve this?

I would like to inject the drivers into the image and avoid the above bold marked step. I tried to inject the drivers into install.wim via dism but I had no luck. Do I miss something? Is there a working tutorial? I spend today but no luck till yet.

Windows 10 Pro 21H1
Dell Latitude 5420
128 GB Corsair GTX USB Drive
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Hi and welcome to the forum
I suggest that you post this in our sister forum,. Ten Forums - Windows 10 Help and Support Forum
 

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@tsgillx,

I can provide the solution to you. Before I start typing up a long, detailed procedure tell me which you would prefer...

Do you want a program that I have written that will do this for you or do you want the step-by-step procedure for properly injecting the driver yourself?

NOTE: The issue is that the driver needs to be injected into the BOOT.WIM (the Windows PE image). When you install Windows, the installation is performed using WinPE so the boot critical drivers need to be available to WinPE, not just to the main Windows image.
 

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Thank you for responding.

I just ran a test after I posted. I injected the driver in boot.wim but not in the PE (didn't work). I injected it into the Windows Setup and voila the SSD drive was recognized.

Here the solution.

I got the boot.wim from the original image

Get Index
Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath C:\Build\wim\boot.wim

Mount Image boot.wim and select Windows Setup which should be Index 2
Mount-WindowsImage -Path C:\Build\Mount\ -ImagePath C:\Build\Image\boot.wim -Index 2

Add Drivers
Add-WindowsDriver -Path C:\Build\Mount\ -Driver C:\Build\Drivers -Recurse

Unmount and Save Image
Dismount-WindowsImage -Path C:\Build\Mount\ –Save

Copied the new boot.wim into the extracted image and build a new iso. WORKS
 

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Bingo. You got it!

Only part of what you said that I don't understand is the statement "I injected the driver in boot.wim but not in the PE (didn't work)." The BOOT.WIM <IS> the Win PE image.
 

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In a way you are right but when you get the boot.wim from original windows 10 pro image it contains both

You find out via powershell
Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath C:\Build\wim\boot.wim

Index 1 was PE and Index 2 the Setup. I mounted the second Index (setup) and injected the drivers into it. It didn't work with PE. Setup is used for normal windows installation for normal users.

I think PE is a special version for Thin clients or such devices. Not sure.
 

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Both Index 1 and 2 are Windows PE. Index 2 is the one you want to target, but both are still Windows PE.

Setup runs in Win PE. Of that I am 100% certain. Period.

Note: If you really want to update your Windows media fully and completely, you need to target the main Windows installation image (install.wim), Win PE, and Win RE.
 

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Some more info...

For some additional insights into this, see this Microsoft Blog:

techcommunity.microsoft.com

Updating Windows 10 media with Dynamic Update packages | Microsoft Community Hub

Get a step-by-step guide to acquiring and applying Dynamic Update packages.
techcommunity.microsoft.com techcommunity.microsoft.com

Note that in the section which updates Win PE they are updating both indices.

Please also be aware that there are bugs in the code presented there. If you ever get really deep into it, let me know and I can provide additional info. I had to write my own code to work around those bugs and Microsoft is aware of these issues, but whether they actually address this remains to be seen :-).
 

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    Sound Card
    Integrated
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    Varies as machine will often be moved to locations with different monitors
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    1 x 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD
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    120W Power Brick
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    Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 2
    CPU
    Intel i7-1255U
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Intel Iris Xe Graphics
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    13.3-inch IPS Display
    Screen Resolution
    WQXGA (2560 x 1600)
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