• Sugarth
  • DriverPacks newbie
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  • Registered: 2007-06-06
  • Posts: 1

Topic: Re-using Driverpacks Finisher after ghosting ?

Hi everyone,

First i want to thank you for this nice Driverpack and tools smile

here is my situation:
I am using many different kind of computer at work, with many different motherboard and hardware.
I usually make an image from one of those computer with a mergeIDE so i can be able to re-use this image to load onto an other computer. But after loading the image to an other computer , most of the time i need to re-install drivers for  ie; chipset, video card, NIC, etc.

So i build an Image of my windows XP with the Driverpacks include into it leaving the drivers in the
%systemroot%\Driverpacks , and i would like to know if its possible to re-use the finisher to redetect and installing hardware drivers after ghosting it ?

Making different image for every computer is getting too much management now so its not really an option smile

thanks for taking time reading this post

regards
Frank

  • From: Hasselt, Belgium
  • Registered: 2006-05-26
  • Posts: 2,609

Re: Re-using Driverpacks Finisher after ghosting ?

You should use sysprep... it handles the device detection and all of that. Just google for it, it's a standard Microsoft tool.

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  • Registered: 2006-05-30
  • Posts: 126

Re: Re-using Driverpacks Finisher after ghosting ?

Yes, sysprep is the answer here. I'll write a bit more here:

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=1633

I do use sysprep & DP in my images.