Extracting Intel NIC drivers

If you download drivers for Intel network cards from downloadcenter.intel.com you will get at .exe file. For example I just downloaded “PROWin7_64_v16.3.exe”.

If you want to inject the drivers to an image, a .exe file is no good. Here is the command line to extract the drivers to a folder:

PROWin7_64_v16.3.exe –e –f c:\Work\PROWin7_x64_Extracted

-e is the extract option
-f followed by a location tells where to extract the files. My experience is that you have to provide the full path.

Notice that you get a lot of drivers! The lazy method is to just add all of them to your image, but you can of course locate the one you need, and remove the rest before injecting.