Having trouble with Imaging with an Answer File

Question

I would like to create an image for Multiple machines; however, I am not sure if I should install the drivers for all machines on one machine and then use the Microsoft-Windows-Pnp Sysprep_Neutral switch in my answer file to keep all drivers that are already
installed on the system and not clean up drivers for devices not present.
Can someone assist me with figuring this out?
Also, trying to get device drivers from other computer to move them to one central computer without having to install one by one. Was going to try moving the .sys and .inf from the drivers folders from the multiple systems and hope that window 7 can give
each system what it needs.
Thanks
AP

Answer 1

If you have already captured your image as a wim, you can use DISM (which is part of the WAIK) to inject the drivers into the wim.  Here is a link that should walk you through the process. (FYI, run it as an administrator)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799258%28v=ws.10%29
The command is: Dism /image:[WIM FILE PATH] /Add-Driver /driver:[DRIVER STORE] /recurse
Recurse should scan all the folders in inject all the drivers it finds, sometimes you have to add /ForceUnsigned to some drivers, but those are few and far between.  You should check the DISM log in %windir%\logs\dism.log for any errors you encounter
and just look for the timestamp as it's your best bet to finding the errors.  I used to support 20+ models of printers and 11 or 12 different models of Dell PCs and laptops, and regularly injected about 1000 drivers for all of them. 
Needless to say, driver injection is VERY useful!
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