How to add the NVMe storage driver after imaging a system using Altiris

This article provides the information on "How to add the NVMe storage driver to a Virtual Machine (VM) imaged with Altiris to prevent the system from encountering a Windows 7 Blue Screen Error".

Blue Screen after imaging VM Windows 7 with Altiris.

A Dell system user reported that their Virtual Machine (VM) imaged with Windows 7 using Altiris deployment would blue screen. After installing Update to add native driver support in NVM Express in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 & "0x0000007E" Stop error after you install hotfix 2990941 in Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft hotfixs the issue continued.

Adding drivers to the driver pool was also attempted but sysprep would not keep the driver accessible and the NVMe drive was not visible to the operating system.

Solution.

NOTE: A good working knowledge of Altiris and the Microsoft Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool is required for this solution.

It was learned that adding the NVMe driver via a command line DISM command prior to the first reboot resolved the issue.

This was the DISM command used:

"dism /Image:%OSdriveletter% /add-driver /driver:%pathtoNVMe% /recurse"