A host operating system (e.g., WinPE®) detects hardware devices connected to a computing device and stores identifiers (if any) of detected hardware devices in a datastore (e.g., the WinPE® registry). Without performing a detection process, a setup program accesses the datastore to obtain identifiers of hardware devices attached to the computing device. The setup program uses a mapping file (which maps hardware devices to drivers of a set of driver files) to determine which drivers of the set of driver files are usable by the detected hardware devices. The setup file then installs the “selected” drivers into the computing device.