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Add a Device Driver to an Online Windows PE Image (Standard 7 SP1)

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7/8/2014

You can add an out-of-box driver to a running environment of Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 3.0 by using the Drvload tool. Drvload accepts one or more driver (.inf) files as input. If the driver .inf file requires a reboot, Windows PE ignores the request. For information about the Drvload tool, see Drvload Command-Line Options.

Note

If the driver .sys file requires a reboot, the driver cannot be added by using the Drvload tool.

Online-driver installation consumes scratch space. For information about scratch space, and about increasing the available scratch space, see Create a Windows PE Build Environment.

To add a device driver to an online Windows PE image

  • At a command prompt, run the following command, where inf_path is the path to the device driver. You can specify multiple paths by separating each inf_path entry with a comma.

    drvload.exe <inf_path>

See Also

Tasks

Create a Custom Windows PE Image
Add a Device Driver to an Offline Windows PE Image