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New W7, no drivers. Some have no inf file, so can't slipstream?
Hey, so I've installed Windows 7 on my Lenovo Y700-15ISK on an EFI-partitioned SSD and have all the drivers I need on hand, but I can't load any external media onto the laptop in order to install those drivers! Can't mount a USB drive, can't load a DVD (no internal disk drive, only USB).
Since I'm using EFI partitions, I can't use a Linux LiveCD--from what I've learned, they only support legacy and won't interface with the EFI partitions at all (and the one I made wouldn't even boot on that comp). I tried booting into a full Ubuntu install disk instead using the "try Ubuntu first" option, which did get a desktop up and running, but that system doesn't seem to allow me to mount the internal SDD. If it did, I could just copy the drivers right over (ironically, my ethernet port was active during that instance, but I had no web browser or terminal to use).
I did slipstream USB 3.0 drivers into install.wim and boot.wim in order for the installation to work (processor is a Skylake i7-6700HQ); I would've expected the same USB flash drive to be able to take advantage of those drivers from within the OS. Still, everything in my Device Manager is giving me the yellow exclamation. Could the fact that my USB drive is 2.0 be the reason it won't load with those drivers I supposedly preinstalled?
On that note, many of the drivers I've found for my laptop do not contain any sort of .inf file that I used to set up the install disk, including the Intel 8260 drivers from both the manufacturer and Intel's own website. Is there a workaround for that? I tried grabbing a more generic network adapter driver from Intel for Win7x64 and slipstreaming that instead, but it either isn't being recognized or I'm doing something wrong.