Export-WindowsDriver and Blue Screnn

~OSD~ 2,126 Reputation points
2024-01-13T19:19:45.0966667+00:00

Hi, I am exporting the device drivers using the following command. And everything is fine. 

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination "full path of folder"

Background: Due to some reasons, the operating system contains device drivers for multiple computer models. The motivation to include many drivers was to use the same image for multiple hardware types with Sysprep with generalize option which will uninstall the devices that are not present... so the approach was good in this context. Problem Description: When I exported the drivers, obviously it was a set of all available drivers that were injected into the operating system.
When I use the pnputil /add-driver with /subdirs /install option on a particular machine, I receive a blue screen, as it tries to install all drivers (a mix of a few models).

Question: Is it possible to somehow export only the drivers that are specific to a machine where I execute Export-WindowsDriver command?
Or, when installing it, can we specify drivers which a machine needs and ignore anything else using when using pnputil /add-driver ?

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  1. AllenLiu-MSFT 40,401 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-01-15T02:20:18.6233333+00:00

    Hi, @~OSD~

    Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

    I think it is not possible to export only the drivers that are specific to a machine using the Export-WindowsDriver command. This command exports all the drivers that are currently installed on the system.

    However, when using the pnputil /add-driver command, we can specify the exact driver package that we want to install, you may check if you use the command correctly.

    For example, if we have a driver package located at C:\Drivers\MyDriver.inf, we can install only that driver package by running the following command:

    pnputil /add-driver C:\Drivers\MyDriver.inf /install

    This should install only the driver package specified and ignore any other drivers that may be present in the same folder.

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