Is Win7 running on LGA1151 + Skylake Motherboards?

Barman58 said:

The workaround for the System partition has been the same since Windows 7 was released - It will not overwrite existing partitions. Create as many partitions as you need before you start and don't leave any spare space and the installer will not create a system partition. simply select the windows partition you wish to use during the install process

It also apparently will only install to an MBR partitioned disk when installing via dvd. I tried as many different ways as I could think of when using a usb stick with the Gigabyte drivers added on, but no matter what, it would not install on a partitioned drive. MBR? Nope, Windows can only install to a GPT. GPT? Nope, Windows could not create a partition, or locate an existing partition.

I'm sure there's a reason for this, but I don't seem to have the patience to find out. And now I have no need to.

AddRAM said:

Hugo smalls said:

Megahertz07 said:

I have a Gigabyte Z170 MB and a i5 6600k and I'm running Win 7 HP 64.
As new MB has only USB 3 ports and new SATA drivers that Win 7 doesn't have, you must add them to the Win 7 installation disk.
Many manufactures has a program to do so, even Intel.
Read my tutorial Create a Windows 7 USB flash installation with new drives for new MB's
You will find all you need there.

I also just upgraded my cpu/ram/mobo to Skylake and am in the process of installing W7 x64. Took me a while messing with Gigabyte's packaged usb drivers combined with a usb install drive, but because it would not let me prepare my ssd the way I liked (WITHOUT the useless 100mb system reserve partition that you can't remove), I instead just installed w7 the traditional way with the dvd. Install went fine, no issues.

However, my question now is how do I get my usb ports (any of them) to work with anything other than mouse and keyboard? I would download the USB drivers from Gigabyte, but my LAN driver is located on my 2TB wd Passport that I cannot currently access.

Your LAN drivers are on the CD that came with your new board :)

In fact all your drivers are on that CD.

And of course W7 will install to a Partitioned MBR drive, it won`t install to a GPT partitioned drive because it has to make it`s own system partition.

Just use Partition Wizard to prep your ssd. Bootable Partition Manager| MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition

Yup, exactly, and just as I remembered there was a shiny new un-opened CD sitting there in the Mobo box, I had literally just finished using a laptop to burn the files from the website onto a CD that I used instead :)

So, all updated now. Happily installing my programs onto a fresh drive, my system boots in about 3 and a half seconds, ready to *finally* give BF1 a try this evening.

Thank you, and thanks to the others herev who looked in, I think just being on a forum with smarter people than myself was all I needed to get that spark of inspiration. Much respect 7f.

Maybe, but I try to make sure nothing I add is added onto the boot list, if possible. I also don't have very much installed on this machine. Try to keep it light and fast.

Do you have Intel rapid storage installed?

Hmm.. you must have quite a bit more content installed than I do. After I update w7 as much as it can be, I still never see the 4 colors even get close to each other.