Installing Windows 7 on intel Comet Lake ?

phoenixFlight · 11 Dec 2021

Hello. Long story short, I wanna install W7 on my Pentium Gold G6400 system. I dunno how can I slip intel (and which ones to get) USB3 drivers, on the ISO image. I have no PS/2 keyboard/mouse nor a optical disc drive.
I found some complicated stuff online, but most requiere a windows OS, I have Linux atm (Fedora).
I can fire up a VM though and get to some windows OS.
Please,is there someone that can guide me,step by step,on how can I make / install ? And if there is any chance I could get a intel graphics driver working for UHD 610? (I know officialy ,is none).

Thank you very much .

SIW2 · 11 Dec 2021

The update ( .msu file ) and driver at the bottom of all my posts is for usb3.
https://www.sevenforums.com/attachme..._win7_2021.zip

The update ( windows6.0-kb2864202-x64.msu file ) must be integrated first, then after that the drivers.

Dism++ can be used to do it

In windows it can be done by mounting the installation media.

For boot.wim mount image 2

For Install.wim select the image of the Edition (Home, Professional, etc ) that you want

Then add the update to the mounted image

then add the drivers to the mounted image

then save the image

then unmount the image.

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Create an EMPTY folder.

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Give it a name - I called it MOUNT

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Run Dism++

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Click File > Mount Image

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Browse to the wim file

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Select the image in the dropdown. For boot.wim select Image 2.

For Install wim select your Edition ( e.g. Home Premium or Professional )

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Browse to the mount folder

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Click OK

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After it has mounted Click "Open Session"

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Click "Updates" in the left pane. Then Click ADD

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phoenixFlight · 11 Dec 2021

SIW2, thanks a lot for all your effort,man. Will try your guide !

SIW2 · 11 Dec 2021

Browse to the update FILE

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Click Drivers in the left pane. Click ADD

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Browse to the Drivers FOLDER( in this case the UASPSTOR x64 folder )

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Click ADD

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Browse to the XHCI x64 folder

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File > Save Image

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File > Unmount Image

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phoenixFlight · 11 Dec 2021

Ok,did it. after adding them, I then made a bootable ISO again with Imgburn, I wrote it with Rufus ( Screenshot - 0ef40060cf42173ed8c77a1f81bb59dc - Gyazo ) in GPT partitioning scheme (my BIOS doesnt allow me to enable CSM, if I dont have a dedicated graphics!) , and it boots, loads the Windows 7 animated logo, and then...complete freeze .

A hard reset is needed after that.

Did that a few times.

SIW2 · 11 Dec 2021

You will need more than just usb3 drivers. Particularly if you dont have csm enabled. You could ask at win raid
Forum - Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008 » Comet Lake - Windows 7 - Z490 - Intel Driver

SIW2 · 15 Dec 2021

If you want to install win7 without csm, you could try Releases . manatails/uefiseven . GitHub

phoenixFlight · 18 Dec 2021

SIW2 said:

If you want to install win7 without csm, you could try Releases . manatails/uefiseven . GitHub

Thanks ,that looks promising !

erpster4 · 18 Dec 2021

SIW2 said:

You will need more than just usb3 drivers. Particularly if you dont have csm enabled. You could ask at win raid
Forum - Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008 » Comet Lake - Windows 7 - Z490 - Intel Driver

though I heard a few weeks ago the win raid forum is closing down for good by the end of 2021

SIW2 · 18 Dec 2021

Currently, Win-Raid has some bigger issues to overcome, before thinking about these "details" (wish they were details but anyway...). Meaning, the transition of the forum software and DB to a format which will allow migration and future control. Our current plan/discussion involves that as a first step as well, so we need some time to have a cleaner picture of what the near future will look like for this forum. To answer your question more directly, it will probably be a merger of sorts, we'll see when we know what we're dealing with.

...To sum up, the current situation/plan is vastly better than last week's future prospects. So we need to let it play out. Sit tight and if we need some help from our users during this process/plan, we'll let you know.

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