You start Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and then use Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) to install a driver to an offline Windows Vista image. After you do this, the driver may not be added to the driver store folder.

For example, assume that you have typed the following command:

start /w pkgmgr /o:”c:\;c:\windows” /n:”e:\oemdrv\unattend.xml” /l:”e:\drvlog”

Because you used the /l:”e:\drvlog” switch, the following errors are logged to the Drvlogs file:

2007-01-26 14:55:53, Info CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: INFO: The class GUID for INF ‘E:\oemdrv\nv_disp.inf’ is ‘4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318′! (Error code (HRESULT) 0×0.)
2007-01-26 14:55:53, Info CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: INFO: The class GUID ‘4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318′ is not boot-critical. (Error code (HRESULT) 0×0.)
2007-01-26 14:55:53, Info CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: INFO: ‘E:\oemdrv\nv_disp.inf’ is not a boot critical driver. (Error code (HRESULT) 0×0.) 2007-01-26 14:55:56, Error CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: ERROR: Failed to stage driver ‘E:\oemdrv\nv_disp.inf’ (HRESULT= 0×8007001D). (Error code (HRESULT) 0×8007001d.)
2007-01-26 14:55:56, Error CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: ERROR: Failed to install driver package ‘E:\oemdrv\nv_disp.inf’. (Error code (HRESULT) 0×8007001d.)
2007-01-26 14:55:56, Info CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: INFO: Installed ‘0′ drivers. (Error code (HRESULT) 0×0.)
2007-01-26 14:55:56, Info CBS Pkgmgr: Install Drivers Offline Callback: INFO: RETURN InstallDriversOffline (0) (Error code (HRESULT) 0×0.)