Script to reinstall drivers for unknown devices

[marietto]

Hello,

I would like to make a script to install the drivers for the unknown devices,taking them inside a folder with a lot of subfolders. The only solution I found right now is to move the mouse cursor and to click over all the entries of the device manager,but it is a big work and it is not very reliable. How can AutoIt identify which are the devices with a missing driver ? Since using the screen coordinates is not so good,do you know a way to get a text from the device manager and move the mouse cursor right there ? Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

[RogerRabbitsClone]

oh my god its epic fail guys cousin

Edited July 17, 2010 by RogerRabbitsClone

[Danny35d]

InfShiff & Device Install

[RogerRabbitsClone]

[marietto]

This is what I did :

0) Installed AutoIt.

1) Created the folder C:\DriverFiles and inside it put these files and folders :

folder NT5 and inside it put the file INFSniff.au3

folder NT6 X64 inside it put the file INFSniff.au3

folder NT6 X86 inside it put the file INFSniff.au3

7z.exe

7z.dll

deviceAPI.au3

DeviceInstall.au3

dpinst.exe

dpinst.xml

dpinst64.exe

INFSniff.au3

DeviceInstall.exe

2) Created the folder c:\Drivers and inside it put the file DeviceInstall.exe and the drivers backupped and compressed with 7z.

3) Gone into the folder c:\DriverFiles\NT5 and ran INFSniff.au3. It asked to me to provide the name of the folder where are located the compressed driver files. Chosen C:\Drivers

4) Gone into the folder c:\Drivers and checked if has been created the file HWIDrepository.txt. Started the restore of the missing drivers. Here I'm stuck,because it says that it can't find this file : C:\DOCUME^1\AC46D^1.A-5\IMPOST^1\Temp\2971\oem0.inf\dpinst.exe. I don't know where should I place it. Please help,thanks.

[Danny35d]

3) Gone into the folder c:\DriverFiles\NT5 and ran INFSniff.au3. It asked to me to provide the name of the folder where are located the compressed driver files. Chosen C:\Drivers

You should choose C:\Drivers\NT5 when that is done run INFSniff.exe again choosing C:\Drivers\NT6x86 at soon that is done run INFSniff.exe one more time choosing C:\Drivers\NT6x64.

[marietto]

Done,but it does not work again. The script need to find dpinst.exe in the temp + driver inf file n.1 + random number folder,but this file is not there. Maybe there is a bug inside the source code ? Anyway I'm not using the Driver's Pack device drivers,but the drivers backupped with a tool. They inf files I have are named from oem0 to oem7 plus I have a lot of dll,exe,nvu files,that I have compressed using 7z.

[marietto]

To be more precise,inside C:\Drivers I have these inf files : ks,oem0,oem1,oem2,oem4,oem5,oem6,oem7,wdmaudio plus a lot of other files.

I have packed all the files with 7z and I saved the packed file (Drivers.7z) inside C:\Drivers.

When I run DeviceInstall.exe inside C:\Drivers folder,it looks for the file dpinst.exe in these folders :

1) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem0.inf

2) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem4.inf

3) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem5.inf

4) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem6.inf

5) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem7.inf

6) temp folder (c:\documents and settings\a.A-58834BC4D4D64\Impostazioni locali\Temp) + (\) + random number folder (4371) + oem1.inf

but dpinst.exe is never there and the driver's restore fails.

Edited July 19, 2010 by marietto