How to extract drivers from vista dvd for windows 7

by **rE-BoOt** Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:18 pm

Lets get started Wink

first download 7zip [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

run 7zip and navigate to your vista dvd and browse to sources folder and double click install.wim

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open install.win you will see 13 folders ,open folder 1 ,DO NOT extract all of the folders in install.wim you will only fill up your hard drive ,i learnt the hard way

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open then windows folder [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
then open system32 folder and browse for Drivers and Driverstore
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now extract these two folders to your desktop and open driverstore folder ,now you can delete the temp folder you dont need it

now you need to rename all the files in folder en-US ,renaming all these files one by one will take a long time so we need a application to bulk rename these
i used Bulk Rename Utility and is a free file renaming software for Windows download here[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] first browse to C: drive \Users\"your name" \desktop \driverstore\en-US

notice how every file ends in .inf_loc we need to rename these to .inf ,take a look at next screenshot
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press ctrl and A to selcet all , then in the extension box select fixed and enter .inf ,hit the rename button and your done! ,now open device manager and install your missing driver by selecting update driver and select browse my computer ,then select the driverstore folder.. job done!