WinPE Builder 2.0 the added drivers do not work
Hello, thank you team for creating WinPE Builder 2.0, overall a great software. Unfortunately I am writing because although I am able to add many disk drivers into Partition Assistant Live, and Backupper Live, I cannot add any drivers to WinPE Builder 2.0.
I have followed the directions from your website. I have downloaded NVMe disk drivers from Intel and other companies, but after I add them into WinPE Builder 2.0, they never work in the final USB or ISO.
Why am I able manually add drivers in Partition Assistant Live, and Backupper Live, but not in WinPE Builder 2.0? Thank you.
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But, AOMEI PE Builder can't list disks?
Check to see if the version are the same in the working environment vs. the non-working environment.
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In the non-working environment, you can try to manually add the driver to see if it works, or if you get an error that gives an explanation (substitute your drive files info for inside the brackets):
pnputil -i -a <path_to_driver_files>\<driver_file>.inf
As for NVME support, I inject Dell Latitude 3410 NVME drivers (needed for work before I retired) into my images and NVME works on my Asus VivoBook laptop.
Try CDing to the directory containing NVME drivers and running DRVLOAD whatever.inf on all the .inf files. If this makes NVME work, you'll know that you have a sufficient set of drivers and the problem is getting them into the image.
"I have tested this on about 10 PCs with 10 internal NVMes, and it can detect them in Aomei Partition Assistant WinPE USB & Aomei Backupper WinPE USB, but it does not detect them in Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0."
He should check the WinPE version in "Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0" vs the WinPE version in Aomei Partition Assistant WinPE USB & Aomei Backupper WinPE USB. He will likely find "Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0" is using a different (older) version of WinPE, and if so, it probably doesn't support NVMe drives/drivers.
"On my PC with NVMe, I performed the steps you suggested with pnputil -i -a, and included the correct path to a known good NVMe driver, but unfortunately it says pnputil is not recognized."
On your PC with an internal NVMe, booted into the "Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0" WinPE environment, (drop to a command line and) try loading the available NVMe drivers manually with:
pnputil -i -a <path_to_driver_files>\<driver_file>.inf
look for error that might confirm non-compatibility.
Like I said, long ago:
"Check to see if the version are the same in the working environment vs. the non-working environment."
If your version is different:
"WinPE Builder 2.0 might be using a older WinPE image with limited driver support/compatibility."
Compare with your environment and troubleshoot appropriately.
“I am able to add many disk drivers into Partition Assistant Live, and Backupper Live”
So that information was already out there.
If anyone has successfully injected an NVMe driver into WinPE Builder 2.0, please post the screenshot from WinPE Builder 2.0. Use the link below to download and install the software.