When you boot the computer from AOMEI Backupper bootable media, you may find that your wireless keyboard, mouse, USB devices, NAS and some other kind of devices are not available to use. In this case, you may need to add the driver to the AOMEI Backupper bootable media.

Why your device is not available in AOMEI Backupper WinPE?

You may have experienced that when you add any new external device to the computer, Windows device manager will inform you that it is detecting this device and then installing the driver. Only after that, your device will be available to use. In fact, the Windows operating system firmware only includes a few frequently-used drivers and they may not compatible with your device. However, AOMEI Backupper WinPE bootable media is created based on the original Windows copy. If the original copy of windows is not compatible with your device, the AOMEI bootable media will be the same.

How to add the drive to AOMEI Backupper bootable disc?

Firstly, we want to clarify that only the WinPE based bootable media supports adding driver. The Linux based is created based on the Linux image built-in the installation file of AOMEI Backupper, so you cannot configure it.

To add drivers, please select Utilities Create Bootable Media Windows PE, next, you will get an information meaning the program will first detect whether your circumstance supports creating WinPE or not, after that, you will get the following screenshot.

In the lower left corner, you will find the "Add driver" button. This option only appears when you are attempting to create AOMEI Backupper WinPE bootable media, so if you want to add additional drivers to the bootable disc, you may have to recreate AOMEI Backupper recovery disc.

Here we go:

1. Download the proper driver package from Internet and then extract it to a proper place for later use. Note: it is incorrect to let the program to add the driver file under your windows installation directory.

2. Specify storage medium. You can insert a storage medium as container or directly generate ampe.iso. Please make a decision and then click "Add Driver" button. Next, navigate to the directory where you extracted the driver then open the necessary file.

3. Now you come back to the Create Bootable Disc interface, click Next, the program will immediately start creating WinPE.