Export Windows drivers from running systems
08 Dec 2023 - Tobias ErdleToday I stumbled over a usually hardly ocurring problem when installating a Windows system: How to install drivers in an offline environment when the distributor doesn't provide an actual archive?
Fortunately I had a pre-installed reference installation and could extract the drivers with this Powershell command:
Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination [DESTINATION DIR]
It is important to have -Online
enabled, so the currently running system is used.