Some laptops cannot get past "Starting Windows"

[mark.dangelo]

@george1421 said in Some laptops cannot get past "Starting Windows":

we also develop our golden images on a vm, sysprep them and then capture with FOG. From there we use fog post install scripts to copy the appropriate drivers to the target computer during imaging. We previously instruct windows OOBE to look for drivers in a specific location when OOBE is running so the drivers get installed at that time. The system works pretty well. We support about 14 different hardware models in our fleet of computers (all Dell BTW).

Thanks for the info! That is what we would like to do as well. Where do you store the drivers folder and do you specify this location in the unattend.xml script? Could you possibly send a step-by-step procedure for doing this, or perhaps some more information on it? You can PM as well. That would be awesome!

Thanks!

[george1421]

@mark.dangelo said in Some laptops cannot get past "Starting Windows":

Where do you store the drivers folder and do you specify this location in the unattend.xml script?

Sorry for the delay this one slipped through the cracks.

The driver directory can be stored anywhere on the target computer that windows can reach during the OOBE process. I have seen some place the drivers in c:\driver, c:\windows\drivers, c:\windows\drv

Then in your unattend.xml file you need to add this section

    <settings pass="offlineServicing">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DriverPaths>
                <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">
                    <Path>C:\Windows\DRV</Path>
                </PathAndCredentials>
            </DriverPaths>
        </component>
    </settings>

ref: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8889/fog-post-install-script-for-win-driver-injection/4