averagejoe
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My employer is starting to look at Windows 8 for our tablet PCs. Currently we only have 1 model, its the Dell Latitude ST and are using Windows 7 on them. I am trying to create and customize an automated install of Windows 8 for our Latitude ST’s.
I’ve used MDT to capture a Windows 8 Enterprise 32bit image and can image Latitude tablet from thumb drive just fine. In image I copied (not installed) driver files to my WIM file. My unattend.xml file works fine, am not getting any prompts once booting into image on my Latitude ST’s.
The problem I am having is Windows Setup is not installing any Latitude device drivers. I copied the device drivers to C:\Windows\INF\LatitudeST folder and in it is a folder for each device (i.e. Network folder contains all driver files for NIC,…). I see in the registry that the device path is set to %systemroot%\INF so I think I have correct location for parking the driver files. I’m assuming that Windows 8 will search all files/folders in C:\Windows\INF for correct INF file. I even tried copying the actual network driver files to C:\Windows\INF thinking the system should see it and then install drivers (incase it didn’t search for sub folders). To make sure I have Windows 8 supported drives, I downloaded latest driver and still don’t work. Everything I try I just cannot get device drivers to install during setup.
Once I am in OS, I can go to device manager, see devices that are unknown, then manually install drivers pointing to the C:\Windows\INF\LatitudeST folder. Manually works, automated don’t.
On Windows 7 Pro 32bit OS, I don’t have a problem. The Windows Setup will search C:\Windows\INF and find all the correct device drivers for the Latitude ST tablet and install them during setup.
What could I be doing wrong? Why cannot I get drivers to install during setup?
Thanks in advance!
I’ve used MDT to capture a Windows 8 Enterprise 32bit image and can image Latitude tablet from thumb drive just fine. In image I copied (not installed) driver files to my WIM file. My unattend.xml file works fine, am not getting any prompts once booting into image on my Latitude ST’s.
The problem I am having is Windows Setup is not installing any Latitude device drivers. I copied the device drivers to C:\Windows\INF\LatitudeST folder and in it is a folder for each device (i.e. Network folder contains all driver files for NIC,…). I see in the registry that the device path is set to %systemroot%\INF so I think I have correct location for parking the driver files. I’m assuming that Windows 8 will search all files/folders in C:\Windows\INF for correct INF file. I even tried copying the actual network driver files to C:\Windows\INF thinking the system should see it and then install drivers (incase it didn’t search for sub folders). To make sure I have Windows 8 supported drives, I downloaded latest driver and still don’t work. Everything I try I just cannot get device drivers to install during setup.
Once I am in OS, I can go to device manager, see devices that are unknown, then manually install drivers pointing to the C:\Windows\INF\LatitudeST folder. Manually works, automated don’t.
On Windows 7 Pro 32bit OS, I don’t have a problem. The Windows Setup will search C:\Windows\INF and find all the correct device drivers for the Latitude ST tablet and install them during setup.
What could I be doing wrong? Why cannot I get drivers to install during setup?
Thanks in advance!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Latitude ST Tablet