Combine drivers from multiple Win7 installs to single image

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Published on 2014-05-22T17:09:27Z Indexed on 2014/05/26 21:32 UTC
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I need to prepare a Windows 7 image with drivers for multiple systems (Lenovo laptops).

I currently have an image prepared on one laptop type but need to grab the drivers appropriate for the other laptop types as well to ensure that it works on all systems.

From what I can tell, the procedure will be:

  • create a boot CD with imageX
  • take a .wim image prepared on the first type of systems
  • take .wim images from the other systems
  • mount the other images in WAIK
  • extract the drivers from the other images
  • inject the drivers into the first .wim
  • boot a system with the boot CD and redeploy the updated .wim image into the Windows partition
  • take an image of the drive with usual imaging tools

This all seems a little too convoluted, but I'm willing to do it to get the proper drivers into the image.

This is (seemingly) necessarily complicated by having more than one OS on the disk image.

Am I on the right track?

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