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Can't find a USB 3.0 driver for Win 7 installation
Hi
I'm trying to install Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit on a new Lenovo P50. The thing is the P50 only have USB 3.0 ports. No USB 2.0 port or optic drive. Therefor, Windows have to be installed using a bootable USB.
As many others I have issues installing windows 7 using a USB 3.0 port due to the lack of USB 3.0 driver in WindowsPE and Windows 7. I think a have read all threads on the internet about this issue and spend hour trying to find a solution. No luck so fare :-(
I'm using Rufus to create the bootable USB and have a ISO image with only Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit.
What I have tried so fare:
- Burn image to DVD and used a external DVD drive with USB. No luck drive shuts up when WinPE boots.
- Add USB 3.0 driver to the installation image using dism command. Drivers downloaded from:
- Lenovo. They do not have any .inf driver for Windows 7 32 bit only a .exe. I have tried downloading the once for all other windows versions. No luck
- Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver for Intel® 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family. No luck
- Random full USB 3.0 driver package from internet. No luck
- The Win7USBpatcher.exe
It must be the lack of USB 3.0 driver. After WindowsPE has booted I have tried various USB devices but nothing is powering up.
Trying to install Windows 10 is no problem.
Next I'll try to install Windows 10 and from there install Windows 7 on a other partition and then delete Windows 10 but not the must smooth way to install windows. And yes, is has to be Windows 7 32 bit.
Any suggestion to what I can try or what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks!