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Thank you very much. Worked perfectly as you said!

i'm trying to have my unattended install install drivers automatically whilst installing. I've downloaded the x64 Win7 driverpack from driverpacks.net Unzipped and put in a folder called Drivers. I've put this folder in.. sources\$OEM$\$1\Drivers and in my autounattend.xml the code is... <settings pass="windowsPE"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <DriverPaths> <PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="d37a5f8b" wcm:action="add"> <Path>C:\Drivers</Path> </PathAndCredentials> </DriverPaths> </component> </settings> and <settings pass="auditSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <DriverPaths> <PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="d37a5f8b" wcm:action="add"> <Path>C:\Drivers</Path> </PathAndCredentials> </DriverPaths> </component> </settings> The folders copy, but the network drivers do not get installed automatically. Is there something wrong to my approach? Does the $oem$ folder get copied after installation?

Brilliant! £18 and replacement media on the way. Thank you very much

I'm upgrading the SAS drives on our Dell PowerEdge 2900. The server has a sticker on it with the product key. Unfrotuantely I do not have the OEM media to reinstall the OS using the key supplied with the server. I've tried changing the PID in the setupp.ini file on a volume disc but the key is still not being accepted. Is there a way around this? No.. I'm not talking any illegal methods to use the key!