If you have booted to Windows PE (perhaps to automatically install Windows or you are running Strelec or HBCDPE) you may want to know certain things about the hardware in the system.
For instance, you may want to install Windows onto the SSD in the system, but Windows does not tell you which drive that is!
You may need to install a special Mass Storage Disk driver so that you can access the hard disks within that system, but you don't know which Controller is in that system and hence which driver to install.
The developer of grubfm, A1ive, has made available on github a utility which you may find useful - called
nwinfo.
There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available as well as a GUI version (gnwinfo) which can be run under Windows or WinPE. The CLI version (nwinfo) will run under WinPE and can display useful information.
K:\NWINFO>nwinfo_x64.exe /?
NWinfo CLI v0.9.5.0
Hardware information utility for Windows
Copyright (c) 2023 A1ive
Usage: nwinfo OPTIONS
OPTIONS:
--format=FMT Specify output format.
FMT can be 'YAML' (default), 'JSON' and 'LUA'.
--output=FILE Write to FILE instead of printing to screen.
--cp=CODEPAGE Set the code page of output text.
CODEPAGE can be 'ANSI' and 'UTF8'.
--human Display numbers in human readable format.
--debug Print debug info to stdout.
--hide-sensitive Hide sensitive data (MAC & S/N).
--sys Print system info.
--cpu Print CPUID info.
--net[=FLAG] Print network info
FLAG can be 'ACTIVE' (print only the active network).
--acpi[=SGN] Print ACPI info.
SGN specifies the signature of the ACPI table,
e.g. 'FACP' (Fixed ACPI Description Table).
--smbios[=TYPE] Print SMBIOS info.
TYPE specifies the type of the SMBIOS table,
e.g. '2' (Base Board Information).
--disk[=PATH] Print disk info.
PATH specifies the path of the disk,
e.g. '\\.\PhysicalDrive0', '\\.\CdRom0'.
--no-smart Don't print disk S.M.A.R.T. info.
--display Print EDID info.
--pci[=CLASS] Print PCI info.
CLASS specifies the class code of pci devices,
e.g. '0C05' (SMBus).
--usb Print USB info.
--spd Print SPD info.
--battery Print battery info.
--uefi Print UEFI info.
--shares Print network mapped drives.
--audio Print audio devices.
