Q: I want to expand an Intel NIC driver; where does the extraction go when I add the /e switch?

A: I had this exact problem as I tried to extract an Intel NIC installation package so I could manually force a driver installation. I tried /e, and it gave no indication of where the expansion had written to.

The secret is to also add the /f switch, which tells the process where to write the extraction. For example,

d:tempPROWinx64.exe /e /fd:tempintel

Note that there's no space between the /f and the path.

For storage drivers, the /e switch doesn't work, so you need to use

-a -n -s -p 

after the storage driver file.

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