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I created a windows 11 iso to install on multiple laptops. But on the install of windows it is asking for drivers at the start. Looking over to see what I'm missing can find it.
 
Required drivers must be added into two places: boot.wim & install.wim

boot.wim allows the USB media to boot, run Setup, and find HW devices
install.wim is your Windows image

When you add a driver to the normal Windows image, in the Apply stage -- expand Reapply tasks across editions, and expand Integrate - Drivers. Check boot.wim (Windows Setup). All manually added drivers will be inserted into boot.wim at the same time.

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not doing any manually installed drivers, just the default windows ones. since I'm installing them on different computers.
 
Your PC might be missing a driver that's not included with the generic ones.
 
rschneider82 said:
I created a windows 11 iso to install on multiple laptops. But on the install of windows it is asking for drivers at the start. Looking over to see what I'm missing can find it.
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You mean right on boot?
That's most commonly caused by not updated boot.wim, or not in sync with the rest of the ISO content.
Make sure when updating with NTLite, add Dynamic Update as well from the Update list, and copy whole content back to the USB stick or wherever, do not skip any files, especially don't mix and match boot.wim image.

Also potentially a USB 3.0 port sometimes can be unsupported, try another port, 2.0 preferably.

Same goes if you already did all that, try skipping the Dynamic Update, if it helps, let me know the exact preset to confirm.
 
What if I have some drivers that I just in install and not boot.wim? Such as sound drivers, Bluetooth drivers and LAN drivers?
 
RBCC said:
What if I have some drivers that I just in install and not boot.wim? Such as sound drivers, Bluetooth drivers and LAN drivers?
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That's fine. Only boot-critical drivers for storage controllers or devices, need to be included in both images.

But clicking the "Reapply tasks across editions" checkbox means you can add drivers to both images in the same processing pass, instead of normally loading the boot.wim separately and adding its own drivers. This is done to save yourself the extra steps.
 
If I use this idea for Windows 11 Pro ,Windows 11 Pro N and create a iso from will it create a iso for each or one iso with both in it? JTM
 
Every Windows ISO holds exactly one install WIM (or ESD) file, but that file may contain one or more install images.

Each image can be related or unrelated to other images in the same WIM or ESD. When the install images are all from the same Windows release, the ISO will compress very well.

For a multi-edition ISO, Setup will allow you to select which edition to install, unless you have an unattended file which picks a specific image or there's an existing product key in the PC's BIOS (which picks the edition). You can also export images from one ISO, and append them to another ISO to create your own new multi-edition ISO.

"Reapply tasks across editions" is a way of applying the same set of changes to several images on the ISO, at the same time. You can can pick as many or as few images from the ISO to update. But typically you do when the images share the same Windows version.
 
garlin said:
Required drivers must be added into two places: boot.wim & install.wim

boot.wim allows the USB media to boot, run Setup, and find HW devices
install.wim is your Windows image

When you add a driver to the normal Windows image, in the Apply stage -- expand Reapply tasks across editions, and expand Integrate - Drivers. Check boot.wim (Windows Setup). All manually added drivers will be inserted into boot.wim at the same time.

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This totally helped me. Thanks! I'm new to this and just missed this step.
 
Hello Guys,

I'd like to keep a reference iso image and only create the ISO with drivers for a single machine, how can I avoid redoing everything?
 
Good evening.
I need to insert the Intel Rapid Storage drives into the ISO since at the time of installation, Windows 11 does not see the partitions on the SSD of the new notebook.
To avoid manually inserting on external usb the files, I ask how can I insert them in NTLite.
The folder consists of multiple files.
Thank you

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In Drivers section, Add and you select the directory (or the .inf files as needed)
 
Thank you for your response.
I ask if all the files in the folder should be copied or just the .inf file.
 
Just .inf file is enough to add, NTLite will "integrate" the necessary files
 
I tried, but unfortunately when I insert the ISO into the notebook, I still don't see the partitions and am forced to manually insert the drives. Maybe I am doing something wrong in NTLite, these drives need to activate before the installation starts, maybe there is a different section than the one I selected.
Thanks

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Have you tried to integrate them into boot.wim (Microsoft Windows Setup) ?
 
NO. I've never done it, could you point me to the procedure?
Thank you
 
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