Steps to add drivers to the Boot Disk Creator 3.x (BDC)

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

The Purpose of the attached article is to provide instructions for adding additional drivers to the Boot Disk Creator (BDC).  

When booted from the new Ghost boot disk you do not have network connectivity.

To confirm that you have a valid IP from the Command prompt type ipconfig /all. Review the results to confirm you do or don't have a valid IP for your network and if needed follow the instructions of the attached document to add new drivers to the BDC and then create a new boot disk. 

Resolution

See the attached Document for full steps to add new drivers to the BDC. 

Some driver downloads will be in a .ZIP format and will need to be extracted so that you can browse to the .INF files from the BDC. Some driver, Intel for example, will provide a .EXE installer for download. In the readme file for these installers will be information on how to properly extract them. Alternatively many third party compression tools can be used to extract these installers so that the .INF files can be accessed by the BDC.

While this article mentions Windows 8 and WinPE 4.0, the process is still the same with Windows 10 and 11.

NOTE: Later versions of the Windows ADK (WinPE) have better driver support for new hardware.  Sometimes it's easier to update the Windows ADK (Windows Preboot Operating System) and Reimport it, rather than finding a new Driver.  See link below if you'd rather update the Windows ADK.

Additional Information

Update Windows ADK for Ghost Solution Suite: KB 178767

Update Windows ADK for Ghost Standard Tools: KB 178835