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I believe the windowsWindows pre-installation environment is a winWindows-32 environment so it would need the 32-bit drivers in order to access the RAID controller. Transitioning into windowsWindows is where it gets interesting. My hope is that once you install windowsWindows on the drive, you access to the full driver library which should at least let you boot into the OS. From there, you could install the 64-bit version of the driver to improve performance.

So to answer your questions:

  1. To add drivers to the windowsWindows installer, you will should be able to slipstream them into the OS build using something like vLite or OPK. I don't know if that also applies them to the pre-installation environment.

  2. Not really, the whole point of signed drivers is to make sure that they are not forged.

  3. I don't think so (see answer above), but you never know until you try. Just make sure that once you get into the full windowsWindows environment that you make sure to install the 64bit driver.

Hope this helps

I believe the windows pre-installation environment is a win-32 environment so it would need the 32-bit drivers in order to access the RAID controller. Transitioning into windows is where it gets interesting. My hope is that once you install windows on the drive, you access to the full driver library which should at least let you boot into the OS. From there, you could install the 64-bit version of the driver to improve performance.

So to answer your questions:

  1. To add drivers to the windows installer, you will should be able to slipstream them into the OS build using something like vLite or OPK. I don't know if that also applies them to the pre-installation environment.

  2. Not really, the whole point of signed drivers is to make sure that they are not forged.

  3. I don't think so (see answer above), but you never know until you try. Just make sure that once you get into the full windows environment that you make sure to install the 64bit driver.

Hope this helps

I believe the Windows pre-installation environment is a Windows-32 environment so it would need the 32-bit drivers in order to access the RAID controller. Transitioning into Windows is where it gets interesting. My hope is that once you install Windows on the drive, you access to the full driver library which should at least let you boot into the OS. From there, you could install the 64-bit version of the driver to improve performance.

So to answer your questions:

  1. To add drivers to the Windows installer, you will should be able to slipstream them into the OS build using something like vLite or OPK. I don't know if that also applies them to the pre-installation environment.

  2. Not really, the whole point of signed drivers is to make sure that they are not forged.

  3. I don't think so (see answer above), but you never know until you try. Just make sure that once you get into the full Windows environment that you make sure to install the 64bit driver.

Hope this helps

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I believe the windows pre-installation environment is a win-32 environment so it would need the 32-bit drivers in order to access the RAID controller. Transitioning into windows is where it gets interesting. My hope is that once you install windows on the drive, you access to the full driver library which should at least let you boot into the OS. From there, you could install the 64-bit version of the driver to improve performance.

So to answer your questions:

  1. To add drivers to the windows installer, you will should be able to slipstream them into the OS build using something like vLite or OPK. I don't know if that also applies them to the pre-installation environment.

  2. Not really, the whole point of signed drivers is to make sure that they are not forged.

  3. I don't think so (see answer above), but you never know until you try. Just make sure that once you get into the full windows environment that you make sure to install the 64bit driver.

Hope this helps