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Inject Win11 Creator drivers per package instead of one batch - #5048

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Type of Change

  • New feature
  • Bug fix
  • Documentation update
  • Refactor
  • UI/UX improvement

Description

Driver injection used one batch dism /Add-Driver /Driver:<exportRoot> /Recurse and that exits non-zero when any single package fails, so one bad INF aborted the whole injection and the ISO shipped with no drivers.

Now each root package folder is added separately, so one bad driver can't fail the rest. Failures are warned per package. If DISM fails after partially modifying the mount, WinUtil discards it and replays the surviving packages against the original image before committing. Folders whose ancestor is already in the set are skipped, since the parent's /Recurse covers them. Excluded INF files are removed even when their directory must remain to reach a retained nested package. This PR complements #5016 since it filters unserviceable and stale drivers, but also is meant to catch anything else that escapes that filtering.

The image is committed only when at least one package was added. When none were, it warns and discards instead of throwing, the caller deletes the entire 5-6 GB work directory on any throw, so a failed injection shouldn't cost the whole run. The caller also no longer logs success unconditionally.

Per-package adds are slower (roughly 102s batch vs 413s looped), accepted for one deterministic code path.

Also: %TEMP% can be an 8.3 alias or contain wildcard characters (a John [Work] username), either of which broke the export path now normalized and using the literal path instead. Export moved to Invoke-WinUtilISODism so DISM output is standardized.

The broad stale documentation for the Win11 Creator will be done in a separate PR.

Issue related to PR

This PR does not directly address the stale/bad drivers reported in those issues. Instead, it ensures that even if those were to exist, other drivers are injected and then an ISO can still be exported.

Validation

  • pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1: 30 passed, 0 failed.
  • Full Pester suite: 591 passed, 0 failed.
  • .\Compile.ps1: passed.
  • PowerShell Script Analyzer on the changed runtime file: only the repository's accepted existing plural-noun warnings.
  • Live ISO/WIM servicing was not run; the mocked tests cover single-mount servicing, partial and total driver failures, failed discard, excluded packages, stale duplicates, and retained nested packages.
  • Docs production build was unavailable locally because Docker is not installed; this PR changes guide content only, not docs tooling or configuration.

Add each root package folder separately so one bad driver cannot fail the rest. The batch form is roughly four times faster. That cost is accepted for one deterministic code path
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Windows 11 driver injection so one invalid package no longer prevents other eligible packages from being added.
    • Excludes unsupported and outdated duplicate packages during injection.
    • Handles wildcard characters in temporary paths reliably.
    • Preserves the original image when all driver additions fail while allowing ISO creation to continue.
    • Progress messaging now accurately reflects whether drivers were added or the image was preserved.
  • Documentation

    • Updated driver injection guidance and troubleshooting information.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for partial and complete failures, nested packages, duplicate filtering, and wildcard-containing paths.

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The Win11 Creator driver-injection flow now exports drivers through the DISM wrapper, filters packages, adds root packages separately, retries after failures, commits only successful changes, and handles wildcard-safe paths. Tests and documentation cover fallback behavior.

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Win11 Creator driver injection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Driver export and package discovery
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1, pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1
Driver export uses Invoke-WinUtilISODism. Export and cleanup paths use literal handling. The workflow excludes extension-class packages and stale duplicates, removes excluded INF files, and identifies eligible root packages.
Resilient package injection and image reporting
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISOScript.ps1, functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISO.ps1, AGENTS.md
Each root package is added separately. Failed additions generate warnings and trigger retries. The image is committed after a successful addition. If no package succeeds, the mount is discarded and progress reporting states that the original image remains unchanged.
Driver injection validation and documentation
pester/win11creator.Tests.ps1, docs/src/content/docs/guides/win11creator.mdx
Tests validate package filtering, nested packages, partial and total failures, wildcard paths, and discard failures. The guide documents warnings and original-image fallback behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0d449

Excluded driver cleanup can remove a retained nested package before it is injected, leaving eligible drivers out of the generated image. The PR should not merge until this behavior is fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Win11Creator
  participant InvokeWinUtilISOScript
  participant InvokeWinUtilISODism
  participant install.wim
  Win11Creator->>InvokeWinUtilISOScript: Start driver injection
  InvokeWinUtilISOScript->>InvokeWinUtilISODism: Export and stage driver packages
  loop Each root package
    InvokeWinUtilISOScript->>InvokeWinUtilISODism: Add package recursively
    InvokeWinUtilISODism->>install.wim: Apply package
  end
  alt At least one package succeeds
    InvokeWinUtilISOScript->>InvokeWinUtilISODism: Commit install.wim
    InvokeWinUtilISOScript-->>Win11Creator: Report drivers injected
  else All packages fail
    InvokeWinUtilISOScript->>InvokeWinUtilISODism: Discard install.wim mount
    InvokeWinUtilISOScript-->>Win11Creator: Report original image preserved
  end
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #5046 by isolating failing driver packages, preserving valid packages, warning on failures, and preventing failed imports from aborting Win11 Creator ISO creation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, tests, documentation, and path-handling changes support the driver-injection objective. No unrelated changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: Win11 Creator drivers are injected per package instead of in one batch.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the per-package driver injection, failure handling, retry behavior, path normalization, documentation updates, and validation results.
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358-358: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not remove an excluded ancestor that contains a retained package.

Select-WinUtilISOStagedDriverPackages can exclude pkg and retain pkg\x64. Line 358 then removes pkg recursively before the add loop. DISM cannot add the retained child package, so a valid driver can be omitted.

Remove an excluded folder only when it has no retained descendant. Add a Pester case with an excluded parent and a retained child.

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foreach ($excludedFolder in $excludedFolders) {
+    if (@($stagedDriverFolders | Where-Object {
+        $_.StartsWith("$excludedFolder\", [System.StringComparison]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+    }).Count -gt 0) {
+        continue
+    }
     try {
         Remove-Item -LiteralPath $excludedFolder -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Stop
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396-401: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Discard and remount after a failed recursive driver add.

DISM does not roll back drivers processed before a failed /Add-Driver /Recurse. Because the catch only logs the error, a later success can commit the partially modified mount. Discard and restart from a clean mount, or isolate each package in its own mount before committing.

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MyDrift-user added a commit to MyDrift-user/winutil that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2026
The tab's functions were rewritten on main by the job layer (ChrisTitusTech#5002), the
per-package driver injection (ChrisTitusTech#5048, ChrisTitusTech#5016) and the OSCDIMG lookup (ChrisTitusTech#4983),
and the interface build moved out of scripts/main.ps1 into
Start-WinUtilUserInterface.ps1 (ChrisTitusTech#5056). Main's versions of those are kept
whole and the wizard is re-applied on top of them:

- Set-WinUtilISOStep now marshals through Invoke-WPFUIThread instead of
  reaching for the dispatcher itself, and is no longer injected into the
  runspace by hand - every WinUtil function is already in the session state.
- The step chevron handlers moved to Start-WinUtilUserInterface.ps1 with the
  rest of the Win11 Creator wiring.
- A failed modification now returns to the ISO picker rather than the modify
  step: main rolls the mount back with it, so there is nothing left to retry.
- The docs keep main's accurate driver-injection description.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VV5mS6gujZeERgSexL1JM8
MyDrift-user added a commit to MyDrift-user/winutil that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2026
The tab's functions were rewritten on main by the job layer (ChrisTitusTech#5002), the
per-package driver injection (ChrisTitusTech#5048, ChrisTitusTech#5016) and the OSCDIMG lookup (ChrisTitusTech#4983),
and the interface build moved out of scripts/main.ps1 into
Start-WinUtilUserInterface.ps1 (ChrisTitusTech#5056). Main's versions of those are kept
whole and the wizard is re-applied on top of them:

- Set-WinUtilISOStep now marshals through Invoke-WPFUIThread instead of
  reaching for the dispatcher itself, and is no longer injected into the
  runspace by hand - every WinUtil function is already in the session state.
- The step chevron handlers moved to Start-WinUtilUserInterface.ps1 with the
  rest of the Win11 Creator wiring.
- A failed modification now returns to the ISO picker rather than the modify
  step: main rolls the mount back with it, so there is nothing left to retry.
- The docs keep main's accurate driver-injection description.
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