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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Anonymous on April 04, 2001, 11:42:34 AM

Title: Can I add drivers to my Windows 2000 CD?
Post by: Anonymous on April 04, 2001, 11:42:34 AM

Is there a way to edit and reburn a Windows 2000 CD so that during installation it would automatically have all drivers installed, such as video card, network card, sound card etc.  

I realise each CD would be specific for a particular computer, but I was looking for info on how to make a CD for my particular system...  I have all the drivers etc, I just don\'t want to have have to install them all separately after initial install.

Title: Can I add drivers to my Windows 2000 CD?
Post by: Jandar on April 05, 2001, 08:11:18 AM

Why not just use Norton\'s Ghost?  INstall Win2K, all updatdes, then drivers and such.  Then make an bootable image CD.  Use that anytime you need to restore.

Title: Can I add drivers to my Windows 2000 CD?
Post by: Anonymous on April 05, 2001, 09:31:48 AM

Yes!

Check out Microsoft\'s documentation on unattended installations. Win2K Magazine\'s Sean Daily had a few articles on unattended installs, where you configure an I386 folder with an $OEM$ folder to house your 3rd party drivers. You also need to create a custom unattend.txt file to enumerate where the pnp drivers are.

Generally, anything w/PnP drivers will work. However, I\'ve seen many drivers that use a custom installation .EXE that may or may not work with unattended installs. And configuring the systems to install 3rd party mass-storage drivers is a complete PIA.

Given the volatility of drivers, apps, patches, etc., where new files are released on a daily basis, I simply keep all this stuff on a separate \"resources\" drive/partition, which never gets reformatted when I reinstall Win2K.

Title: Can I add drivers to my Windows 2000 CD?
Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2001, 02:13:36 PM

You can also use Power Quest software to do the same thing as Ghost