sysprep win 7 64 bit generalise, oobe and drivers for different motherboards
hi guys hope you are well.
a couple of questions....ive googled this but would really like to get it from the horses mouth from anyone who does this regularly.
1)can someone tell me from experience if this is worth doing....
ive always been of the opinion that i dont deploy a sysprepped ghosted image unless the motherboard is the same model and revision as the reference. if the image is generalised will this be ok on different motherboards?
2) if i do load drivers and then generalise the image, is windows first run "aware" of the drivers i have loaded and can choose to install them if they are appropriate or do they get deleted as part of the generalisation?
a couple of questions....ive googled this but would really like to get it from the horses mouth from anyone who does this regularly.
1)can someone tell me from experience if this is worth doing....
ive always been of the opinion that i dont deploy a sysprepped ghosted image unless the motherboard is the same model and revision as the reference. if the image is generalised will this be ok on different motherboards?
2) if i do load drivers and then generalise the image, is windows first run "aware" of the drivers i have loaded and can choose to install them if they are appropriate or do they get deleted as part of the generalisation?
noxcho
In my experience as long as you are not using any RAID controller the Windows 7 standard package drivers are enough.
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ah, i dont really agree with that - for starters the "standard ahci controller" in win7 isnt much cop, nor is the "standard vga adaptor" . they'll get you by but they arent very efficient.
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thanks for this.
i currently use acronis to make an image and then just usb 3 it over to a new disk - takes about 9 minutes.
im fully familiar with how to get the correct driver ... ive been doing this for a long time ...it just takes time to do and is very boring.
i have tried this now with the generalise option and it does indeed have access to the drivers i loaded in the reference image- whether it can "choose" to use them or not im not sure yet as i havent installed it on a different chipset but i will try it!
thanks for all your help
i currently use acronis to make an image and then just usb 3 it over to a new disk - takes about 9 minutes.
im fully familiar with how to get the correct driver ... ive been doing this for a long time ...it just takes time to do and is very boring.
i have tried this now with the generalise option and it does indeed have access to the drivers i loaded in the reference image- whether it can "choose" to use them or not im not sure yet as i havent installed it on a different chipset but i will try it!
thanks for all your help
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ok, just to complete this, i have installed it on quite diverse chipsets now and it is fine - on the same chipset as the sysprepped image it gets the right drivers that i installed, on other chipsets it chooses the ones that it thinks are best.
this is great, and is going to save me a tonne of time!
cheers guys.
this is great, and is going to save me a tonne of time!
cheers guys.