Injecting Drivers into Wim 'Access Denied'

[Darylrese]

Good Morning,

 

I have mounted an image and wish to inject a tgraphics driver into the image.

 

Everytime i try cand run the comman below, it comes up with 'Error 5 - Access Denied' any ideas?

 

dism /image:"C:\Temp\Mount" /add-driver /driver:"C:\Temp\Drivers\graphics\Graphics\ics64.inf"

 

I used this command to mount:

 

Dism.exe /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\temp\CUSTOMBOOT.wim /index:1 /mountdir:C:\temp\mount

 

 

I am an administrator with full admin rights.

Edited November 6, 2013 by Darylrese

[Steve21]

As stupid as it sounds are you running UAC and not elevating cmd before running the commands?

 

Edit - Also did you check the zone isn't blocking it on the actual driver file?

 

Steve

Edited November 6, 2013 by Steve21

[Darylrese]

I have indeed turned UAC off and i am elevating the deployment tools command prompt

 

I cant seem to be able to delete the mounted wim either, lots of access denied errors...

[Steve21]

Only two other times I've seen it is when the drivers are blocked from another zone (When you right click on the driver inf and go to properties, it gives unblock option etc?) but that wouldn't affect the other one.

 

Or when an AV is blocking the registry calls, which sometimes happens, especially mcafee!

 

Only other things that spring to mind would be trying it to another non-C drive folder just incase you have weird permissions etc.

 

Steve

[Darylrese]

Ok thank-you i will check that.

 

Could it be that the wim once mounted is read only somehow?

[Steve21]

You need to put the /readonly tag onto it normally unless any settings can be changed for that.

 

Steve

[Darylrese]

Ok thank-you. Very strange indeed. I too have not come across this problem before in my 8 years experience

[Darylrese]

All sorted, folders were owned by 'TrustedSoftware' user, took ownership and replacing child permissions and it successfully injected.

 

I just hope that wont screw up folder permissions on the image itself once deployed

[Darylrese]

Ok so once the image was deployed, all the permissions were screwed up on the windows folder and i couldnt install anything.

 

Any ideas how to inject the drivers without having the ownership of files and folders?

[DMcCoy]

Is this for WDS/MDT? In which case it would be easier to just add them to the WDS server (assuming 2008 R2 or later).

 

I see it's call customboot, is this a boot image or a deployment image? Some drivers are not valid for injection into a boot image (like graphics ones iirc).

[Darylrese]

WDS...Just realised with R2 you can inject drivers into the boot image so just going to try that method instead and will report back