I'm trying to make a Win7Pro64 bit installer for work

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Few questions:
How can I incorporate ALL updates into NTLite? It appears and window update files that are .exe won't work?
When it comes to the drivers, it's an Intel DZ77SL-50K board. While intergrating the driver files doesn't seem to have a issue, there are setup files, to properly load everything the system would need to utilize said drivers. How can this be done?

At the un-attend portion of setup, the settings I put in, don't work. I have to go through the setup process, enter in a product key, etc.
And I have made sure the unattend file is at the root of the drive.

What I'm trying to do is create a "out of box experience" for when these systems eventually get used at work. The image that's being created, gets placed in it's own Recovery partition, should there be any issues, it's a simple "choose Windows setup" from the command prompt. Wait 10-15 minutes and the system is back up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Hi,

some exe updates are supported, like IE11 and WUAgent, to name a few.

However for many of them it is recommended to use the Post-setup page anyway, as they depend on the current state of the system, do not support integration.
You can specify a few to see if we're on the same page.

Autounattend.xml file is generated and put to the correct position, if you are moving it manually, just make sure it's in the root.
If it is, then send me a preset from NTLite to generate it on my side and confirm if there is an issue.
Before you do, please try the option "Copy to Boot image" in the Unattended page toolbar, in some situations Windows does not pick it up until copied like that.

Recovery image setup is not doable from the setup, you can do it after with tools like this.
If it matters, you can auto-partition the recovery partition with the tool using the Unattended - disk configuration in the toolbar.
 
And we have progress!

The whole recovery image thing I can do that process on my own with cmd prompt, but now when I do the xcopy from USB to recovery partition on the hard drive it loses all the autounattend data. The file is still there on the root of the hard drive, it doesn't see it though.

All I have to do now is run the installer all the way through from the USB to confirm if it is caused by the transfer or not. But figured if there was anyone here that may have come across this issue what it might be?
 
Autounattend.xml works when the install is done from USB, but not when I do the xcopy method and transfer the setup to a recovery partition, hmmm
 
Have you tried using the "copy to install image" and/or "copy to boot image" options for the unattended setup? I had to do that for the boot image for a USB install as it would work over a VM but not over USB in my case.
 
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