So you have built up a PC with those bits fro your first post ? Where did you get the Win 7 image from ? How did you make a bootable USB installer ? Have you made the Win 7 UEFI Bootable ? Are you planning on making Win 7 your main OS or moving onto Win 8.1 or 10 ? Have you got the install disc which came with the board ? Does you PC you have built have a disc drive ? The SATA drivers will be on that disc. Boot from USB, choose Custom Install, place the drivers CD in the disc drive and Load the drivers from that...If in fact you have an optical drive.
I am thinking it is not the actual drive causing the problem but the SATA controller\driver..... Either HDD or SSD would need newer drivers.
Im on my phone now. I got the iso from a post on this site which went to a google account to download directly. I made it by formatting the USB to fat32 and extracting the iso directly to it. I moved a file in sources/microsoft/boot up one level. I took another file that i assume are the boot instructions for X64 and moved that to the proper spot. I want to stay on window 7 but its being so bitchy I feel like moving on. Parts are as in the original post plus a gtx 1060, I do have a dvd drive. I put the drivers on a separate USB and none of the USB's show up, including the one i booted from. Yes i have the motherboard disk, i figured out it had the drivers before the library closed.
I did read the manual, that part too, it just didn't click in my head why it would work until just now. The mobo does recognize the dvd drive. I'm checking this as we speak.
Simply formatting the USB under Windows and copy the files to it will not make a bootable USB. Using Diskpart under command prompt is the way to do it. Can you run command prompt on this here library machine. Run command prompt as admin. Diskpart Select disk (making sure to select the USB ) Clean Create partition primary Select partition 1 Active Format quick fs=fat32 Assign Exit Exit Then copy the extracted .iso files to the USB. I personally would not worry about UEFI mode with Win 7. Can this be done on the library PC. Does a family member or friend let you have use of their machine to help you work this issue out
What do you mean by this? Are you on a UEFI/GPT setup system? And were you trying to modify the installmedium to be able to install 7 on an EUFI/GPT system? To do that you need to go to the "ISO:\EFI\Microsoft" folder and copy the "Boot" folder to the "ISO:\EFI" folder. Now you have to open the install.wim with 7zip, browse to "1\windows\boot\efi" and extract the file called "bootmgfw.efi", next rename it "bootx64.efi" and put it in the folder "ISO:\EFI\Boot" folder. Now your FAT32 formatted USB with win 7 is UEFI/GPT bootable.
Holy s**t, Joe C you're my savior. Its installing everything now. Omg im so relieved right now. Ive been trying to fix this since thirsday, working on it from 8am to 11pm every day. Wow, I cant believe the fix was so damn simple.
Yeah, enthousiast that's exactly what i did. Joe fixed it for me, i just had to pit my motherboards included disk in while also booting the installer. It worked first try. Tnx, it did work though. I'll link you exactly what i did later once im in windows.
I thought only skylake mobo's had no working usb2 ports anymore (all xhci), older intel based systems should have at least 1 usb2 port supported by msft.
I think it's the 100 series Intel chipsets.The OP's mobo has 2.0 ports but still could not get 7 to install. Kinda reminds me of a time when Sata drivers had to be installed by selecting F6 during the install and popping in a floppy with the driver
USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but only within Windows 7. When attempting to boot from a USB 3.0 to install Windows 7 is where the drivers are needed. Asus provided the USB 3.0 drivers needed when the OP booted up to this Asus disk and then selected the USB drive to install
Exactly. Bottom line is integrate USB 3.0 (xhci) drivers to boot.wim index 2 for Windows setup to install 7 successfully.