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it has been my experience that a usb3 attached thumb drive disappears during setup, and must be removed and replaced to launch setup, otherwise it will insist that it can not find setup files. (did you try looking where these files came from... Duh!)

it has been easier for me to just fly with usb2 speeds, not sure how the disappearing drive issue gets fixed yet.

thanks again!

Yes I have seen it.

I tend to take a more hands on approach.

answered in my first post.
let me elaborate:

Use DISM to add ONLY Chipset and Mass Storage (and USB3?) drivers to your source. They are small packs.
(I put them right in my install and boot WIM files of every install i have)

SAD - Stand Alone Driver installer
put SAD (with NT6 DriverPacks) on the source (to be cloned) drive.
Call SAD from setupcomplete or whatever.
SAD will only install drivers that are required per machine.
(This is what you said you wanted... and that is what it does... reread last line)
Delete SAD from setupcomplete or whatever

Might as well use the entire set of drivers since once the SAD folder is deleted only machine specific drivers will remain.
this will add a huge amount of size to your source, but since you are using a disc duplicator who cares?
The advantage here is any hardware is supported.
the target will not suffer the loss of space after deployment (since we are deleting everything we don't need)
mr_smartepants suggests that if you have a small number of machine types (perhaps they are all DELL) then you could make a custom driver set just for you to put in your SAD folder to save space and time during the copy. (Optional)
The advantage here is space and copy time, but you give up the ability to deploy to a black box.

this will add minimal size to the target with maximum compatibility to any machine (black box).

again same answer as first post use SAD!

PS I love companies that would rather pay me than buy tools... more for me . You can lead a horse to water...

PSS you could put SAD on a thumbdrive and run it manually after the drive is installed in the target. That's why we call it Stand Alone .

PSSS Or you could put it on a DVD and use autorun . (convenient but slow)

Welcome to DriverPacks.net,

good question, short answer,

Sysprep always seems to have issues, DriverPacks (team / site) does not directly support it, many of our users do. Whether you sysprep and disc duplicate or deploy from USB or disc with an installation image your best bet is to use DISM to add mass storage and Chipset drivers to your  base image and then run our SAD2 script from SetupComplete.cmd or similar for the remaining DriverPacks. in this way the deployment image and the target machine are not bloated with unneeded drivers.

SAD -> first Stickied topic in this subforum. (  Stand Alone Driverpack utility for all OS XP, 2k3, 2k8, Vista, Win7 )

I know you said you can't deploy from server because you don't have one, BUT with Norton Ghost you can do a one to many copy. it's very slick. I have done this with over a hundred machines at a time, and you don't have to take out the HDD's . simply prepare your master, Boot up from usb, disc whatever and run Ghost Server on the master (this machine is now your server) they do this very slick, you connect all the client machines also with a ghost boot disc or USB. Then they use multicast to deploy, thus there is NO increase in network traffic per machine, 100 uses the same as one, true multicast. Plus you don't have to pull and replace the drives. Just throwing it out there . (This works even better if you have a large number of identical machines because you can skip sysprep, Ghost automatically fixes the network and machine (ssid) info to be unique for each machine .

Thanks for the kind words

Jeff

Do you have the HWIDs from that machine? Rebooting is usually HDD Controller driver but not always.

What version of the packs did you use on that machine.
You tried XP, and Win7 OS's?  list packs for each (versions)

We are getting somewhere now

HInt check the setupapi.log I assure you there is an error, just because you didn't get a blue screen doesn't mean there was no error recorded. i have suggested this multiple times now.

did you use DriverPacks BASE to add mass storage to your XP source? Was your source(s) clean OEM disc image?
although you have now revealed that you are using xp and 7 32bit, no service pack levels / updates were indicated.
So we STILL don't know what source(s) you are using.

can we get this together. normally we are this far half way through a first post... it would be nice to get all the first post info together before say post 20

Do you also have a post going at wintoolkit we could refer to? you are really making this painful for us.

there are a couple alternatives. they boil down to two main catagories. Wait and Help.

UBCD4Win IS BartPE... It has just been preloaded with the right combination of plugins to make life SIMPLE.

if you look there is good old PeBuilder... just as expected.

If you can do it with BartPE you can do it more easily with UBCD4Win's version of BartPE.

If you have a workin BartPE plugin for your needs just add it to your buld .

many drivers have dependencies, other plugins like HWPnP.

try building BartPE with UBCD4Win, if that works (and i know it does) then you are missing one or more plugins that support your drivers.

Remember it's PE not windows, just because you add something doesn't mean it will work, at least not without doing some preparations first.

UBCD4Win has all the dependencies included and debugged for you, it even includes the DriverPacks plugins already

PS IDK if 2k3 r2 is compatible with BartPE???  If UBCD4Win fails try 2k3 (not R2)

Still no clue as to, what he is doing, or how, on what OS, (or why), One more useless post (not in compliance with RULE 1) and I am going to ban him.

I HATE that.

let me put the shoe on the other foot...

Fix what??? your lawnmower? your cat? your roof?
Sorry i can't fix stupid.
- It's not possible to solve an undefined problem.

It makes no sense, that was why i asked what he did