Windows 10 Drivers Not Copying

[Bob Henderson]

@george1421 Yep, I’ve found that before numerous times. My problem is mostly ignorance of not knowing how the Unattend.xml is built, so I don’t know where to put that. Hence asking if someone had a sanitized one they’d be willing to share, so I can see the layout and go.

I’ve used the generators, as well as my existing Win10/Win7 ones, but still don’t really know where to put it.

Thanks!

[george1421]

@bob-henderson I can’t share my (our) unattend.xml file with you because of a NDA agreement, but I can show you where the section goes.

[Bob Henderson]

@george1421 See, that’s the issue. I have that right after OOBE, as you can see below, and it still doesn’t pull. Weird huh?

[george1421]

@bob-henderson Now I can say this use to work. I have not tested it with 1709 yet. 1709 is very different (internally) than 1703. As they said, “Windows 10 will be the last version of windows you will ever need”.

[Bob Henderson]

@george1421 That’s probably it. It’s a 1709 image, as we’re always pushing the latest and greatest for whatever reason. I’m sure they’ve made it more difficult to get your drivers from anywhere but Windows Update…

[george1421]

@bob-henderson

Only thinking out loud at the moment…
We may have to go the route of installing the Dell WinPE 10 drivers cab into the reference image and then in the target computer using either dism or pnputil to force load the drivers during setupcomplete.cmd. The dell winpe drivers (even if you are not using dell hardware) will give the target system enough drivers to complete OOBE where the actual drivers can be injected during setup complete.

I simply haven’t had to time to work on our 1709 image internally so I can only guess at this time.

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 @Bob-Henderson

George, I think Bob is skipping over the editing of the FOG Scripts. Bob, if you have made the changes to unattended that still does nothing to tell FOG to drop your driver folder into C:\Drivers. See the following reply.

@george1421 said in Windows 10 Drivers Not Copying:

@uwpviolator Well then, I think you might want to change up your fog.drivers script a bit. Right now its working fine for win7 but not win10. So in the first script you posted modify this section of code.

#############################################
dots "Preparing Drivers"
# below creates local folder on imaged pc
# this can be anywhere you want just remember
# to make sure it matches throughout! (case IS important here)
clientdriverpath="/ntfs/Windows/inf/Drivers"
remotedriverpath="/images/drivers/$machine/$osn/$arch"

to this

#############################################
dots "Preparing Drivers"
# below creates local folder on imaged pc
# this can be anywhere you want just remember
# to make sure it matches throughout! (case IS important here)
if [ $osid -eq 9 ]
then
    clientdriverpath="/ntfs/Drivers"
else
    clientdriverpath="/ntfs/Windows/inf/Drivers"
fi
remotedriverpath="/images/drivers/$machine/$osn/$arch"

You might ask, so what will that do for you? The patch tests to see what OS you are deploying. If the OSID==9 then you are deploying a win10 image. In that case it will copy the drivers to C:\Drivers, all other OS’ the drivers will be copied to C:\Windows\Inf\Drivers.

Then in your unattend.xml file, tell oobe to look in c:\Drivers for its files.

[Bob Henderson]

@uwpviolator Actually, I think George is right. To test this and make sure it’s none of my scripts that are acting up, I actually dumped the drivers in the C:/Driers folder prior to capture, and then sysprepped with hte info. So eve nwith the files there 100%, windows doesn’t see them and goes on it’s own merry way.

I’m with @george1421 on this one, 1709 is doing something dumb again. Honestly, I think they are trying to push us more and more to MDT/WDS…or for them, SCCM.

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@bob-henderson I have done this with 1709 and it worked just fine. Review your unattended file or create a test one with just the driver location changed to C:\drivers.

Is everything else working in your unattended file or working at all? Are you actually calling Sysprep to use your unattended file?

[Bob Henderson]

@uwpviolator Yep, I sure am calling the unattend. I’m imaging the same way I have been for a while.

Would you be able to sanitize your unattend and provide, and I’ll do a line by line? As stated, my Unattend hasn’t really been updated since hte Win7 days, so I’d love to see a modern one that is known working…