Adding NVMe and Intel VMD Storage Drivers to WinPE Boot Images

光亚 创新 20 Reputation points
2026-06-24T04:00:45.18+00:00

Hi guys

Our field support kit contains a bootable WinPE drive for offline system recovery. When imaging a laptop with a modern NVMe solid-state drive, the installation wizard fails because it cannot see the drive target. How do we use the DISM command-line tool to inject Intel VMD or storage controller drivers directly into the boot WIM?

Tqsm

Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Set up, install, or upgrade
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  1. Domic Vo 29,480 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2026-06-24T04:38:07.85+00:00

    Hi 光亚 创新,

    To enable your WinPE boot drive to detect modern NVMe drives, you must inject the Intel VMD storage drivers into the Windows Setup wizard environment (Index 2) of your boot.wim file using DISM. First, create a temporary local folder and extract the raw .inf driver files. Next, open an elevated command prompt to mount index 2 of the boot.wim to your temporary folder, then use the DISM add-driver command with the recurse switch to integrate the drivers. Finally, unmount the image and commit the changes before copying the updated boot.wim back to your field support kit.

    Domic V.

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