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How To Add Drivers and Re-Create A Windows 2008 R2 Installation DVD

You know how it goes, nothing is simple when it comes to building servers, especially with Windows and drivers.  Recently I was tasked with building servers 300 miles away through the iLo and could not get HP Intelligent Provisioning to work so I resulted to mounting the iso image on the iLo itself and set to boot. This worked to start the installation but there was no drivers and stopped it dead in it’s tracks.

So what next you say? How about to extract the Windows Server 2008 R2 ISO and add the drivers needed for the installation. This post will cover exactly how to accomplish the task. For the post we will be using Windows 7 Professional x64. Also, this example shows how to add it to Windows 2008 R2 Standard edition.

Prerequisites

First create the following folders
C:\temp2\WindowsISO (Unpack your iso to this folder)
C:\temp2\drivers (Add all driver folders in this folder the drivers have to be in .inf format)
C:\temp2\wim (Is a temp folder for the WIM file)
C:\ temp2\WindowsISOdrivers (the new .ISO file will be created here)

Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5753)

The Process

Start Deployment Tools Command Prompt from AIK Deployment Tools > Deployment Tools Command Prompt from Start menu

First we need to show what versions are in the install.wim file. Earlier we stated that this is for Windows 2008 R2 Standard (Full Edition). We can see what is available using the dism command.

C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools>dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:C:\temp2\WindowsISO\sources\install.wim

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Details for image : C:\temp2\WindowsISO\sources\install.wim

Index : 1
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARD
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARD
Size : 10,510,509,480 bytes

Index : 2
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARDCORE
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARDCORE
Size : 3,563,998,339 bytes

Index : 3
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISE
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISE
Size : 10,510,890,698 bytes

Index : 4
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISECORE
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERENTERPRISECORE
Size : 3,563,972,455 bytes

Index : 5
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTER
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTER
Size : 10,510,997,874 bytes

Index : 6
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTERCORE
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERDATACENTERCORE
Size : 3,564,010,572 bytes

Index : 7
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEB
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEB
Size : 10,520,088,768 bytes

Index : 8
Name : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEBCORE
Description : Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERWEBCORE
Size : 3,562,616,654 bytes

The operation completed successfully.

As we can see from the output Standard Edition is index 1, so now we can mount the install.wim.

Mount the install.wim file from C:\temp2\WindowsISO to C:\temp2\wim

 c:\> imagex /mountrw C:\temp2\WindowsISO\sources\install.wim 1 C:\temp2\wim

w2k8iso_1

Add Drivers with dism

 cd C:\temp2\drivers\hp
 dism /image:C:\temp2\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

w2k8iso_2

Now un-mount the WIM Image

 imagex /unmount /commit C:\temp2\wim

 

Create the new ISO file
 oscdimg -n -m -bc:\temp2\WindowsISO\boot\etfsboot.com C:\temp2\WindowsISO C:\temp2\WindowsISOdrivers\en_windows_server_2008_r2.iso

Burn the result to a DVD and the drivers should be available for detection at installation!

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