> Windows would panic, certainly (because so much drivers & other state is persisted & expected) Nope. 7B is because back in WinNT days it made sense to disab

> Windows would panic, certainly (because so much drivers & other state is persisted & expected) Nope. 7B is because back in WinNT days it made sense to disable the drivers for which there are no devices in the system. Because memory and because people can't write drivers. Nowadays it's AHCI or NVMe, which are pretty vendor agnostic, so you have 95% chance of successful boot. And if you boot is successful then Windows is fine and yes, it can grab the remaining drivers from the WU.