Installing drivers programmatically in Windows 2000

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Ritesh

I am working on creating a single image which could be
deployed on multiple hardware platforms. The important
requirement for this is that drivers get installed
automatically during deployment without any user
intervention depending on the hardware model.

I can detect hardware model using hwinfo32.exe and then
load driver's .inf file path for that particular hardware
in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\DevicePath
registry. But my image after rebooting still shows devices
in Other Devices list (i.e drivers uninstalled)

I want windows 2000 to kick start driver loading........
something similar when windows does plug and play
installation of devices. How do I do that ? Can someone
please help ?
 
Hi,

I could figure out how to make pc do hardware scan and install applicable drivers by using sysprep -pnp parameter.

Now I have another set of problem. The problem is .......

I am installing plain OS on Dell desktop model Optiplex GX 260. After I pull the image and apply it to Laptop model Dell Latitude c610, this laptop hangs after completing progress bar "Starting Windows". I tried the same thing again, but this time i pulled image on c400 instead of Optiplex gx260 and applied that image on c610, and windows booted without any problems.

Does anyone know the reason why image pulled on Optiplex GX260 hangs on c610 whereas image pulled on c400 works perfectly ok on c610 ?

The answer to this will help me in doing clean up before sysprep -pnp is run.

If you have any doubt pls let me know and i will explain you in detail.

Thanks in advance.
 
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