

Mirror these files for future use, so that people in the future would be able to try it out. This solution will only work though if you have at least 1x USB 2.0 port on your computer. It is from Dell, but I installed it on my MSI motherboard and it works like a charm! I'm now able to use all my USB 3.0 ports on Windows 7. I haven't tried the tool myself yet because I already successfully installed Windows 7 with USB 3.0 drivers using the latter method below, but hopefully that tool will also automatically install USB 3.0 drivers to the Operating system itself once you're done installing Windows 7.Īfter installing Windows 7, if you need a USB 3.0 driver or if your USB 3.0 ports do not work - you can try this: Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility (From Intel) They pulled it out from their website already but managed to still find it so I thought I'd put it up here. Now I found a tool that will modify your existing Windows 7 bootable flash drive and add native support for USB 3.0 to the installer. This means that if your keyboard and mouse is plugged into a USB 3.0 port, you basically cannot control it. Any thing to be offered here? Thanks for the advice.A major issue with installing Windows 7 on a modern computer is that USB 3.0 ports do not work. My question is, what am I doing wrong here? I mean this should not be this hard to install Windows 7 to a USB 3 based system with the Intel utility. Since everything is USB 3.0 native, there was no issues installing. Right now I have the NUC running on Windows 10. Created another USB booting drive and try the USB creator again. Next I download a minty fresh copy of the Windows 7 64 bit ISO from the microsoft website. So I figured maybe it was something wrong with the ISO copy on the jump drive. Yes I was running this program on a Windows 10 laptop and with admin privileges. I would get to the last image, at which point it would stop working and give a message of the program needs to close. Long story short.ĭownloaded and ran the USB 3.0 Creator utility for the Windows 7 USB drive I have. ironically this is being typed on a W10 laptop) Here is what I have done so far.

(I like the overall feeling of W7 over 10. Now i would prefer to have Windows 7 running on the NUC at this time. Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility latest version: Download Windows 7 USB 3.0 Cre: Site Content: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Screenshot of the main domain Check main domain: windows-7-usb-3-0-creator-utility.en. Once up and running to my liking, it will be replacing the Skylake i5 system I built earlier this year. Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility (Windows), free and safe download.
