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  • 1.  Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Posted Aug 28, 2010 06:35 PM

    Hi

    I am just wondering iif it possible to add device drivers to a ghost image after it has been created?. Or must I sysprep the image again and add devices drivers to the C:\Windows\Inf folder, and then recreate the ghost image that can be deployed to several different makes and models of hardware.

    I am curious to hear what other people that our using Ghost are doing to create a universal image?


  • 2.  RE: Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 30, 2010 02:32 AM
    You can apply the sysprep as you mentioned , but the easy way present with the Ghost solution is to use Deploy anywhere ; After Ghost image deployment you can use the deployanywhere manually or can be executed from UI , when create a task , The driver database which is been used by deploy anywhere can keep updated with different drivers required , this can be also will be maintained for different OS's which can not bepossible with the one Ghost image of a specific OS.


  • 3.  RE: Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 30, 2010 02:34 AM
    You can check this link for deploy anywhere steps
    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-use-deploy-anywhere-after-restoring-ghost-image-0


  • 4.  RE: Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Posted Aug 31, 2010 08:40 AM
    What I did was close the the XP way.  I created a C:\Drivers folder, and added it to the DevicePath registry key.  Win7 will recurse that directory and pull drivers it needs.  I need to figure out how to get the network support working during sysprep, mine blue screens on about 50% of my machines when I go to open the share, and most of the other ones error out looking for the driver.  That second one is bad too, since it stops the automated sysprep


  • 5.  RE: Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Posted Sep 03, 2010 11:13 AM

    Terry,

    what do you mean stops the automation of sysprep?. Also off hand would you know where this regkey is located?. I need to check it.


  • 6.  RE: Adding device drivers to a ghost image of Windows 7

    Posted Oct 06, 2010 03:26 PM

    basically, when an automated sysprep runs into an issue, it will revert back to user input required.  Thats what I mean by stops.

    The reg key i am talking about is HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version -> DevicePath

    DO NOT DELETE %systemroot%\inf