New MotherBoard need advice on how not to reinstall windows??

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I think it will install Win 7 just fine I think everybody panicked mostly

Well with Kaby Lake and the Z270 Boards Win 7 is a Bust.. you can get it installed. it is the behavior when in windows that makes it unusable..

I had no USB Drivers installed, Mouse Very irattic and jumping and opening windows when moving around uncontrollable.. I also had massive freezes when doing things not related to OC as I DEclocked it and it still Froze up.. I just installed Win 10 for now.. Maybe I should have gotten a Skylake CPU..

Well funny thing is under Win 10 I am not having any issues like before when I was on Win 7.. I still think something was going on either way I'll just suck it up and use Win 10

Thnx..

fwiw I just upgraded two older (one amd. one intel) win7 machines to Z270 motherboards with i7 7700k cpus with zero issues. Prior to the swap I just manually changed the device driver for the boot drive to the standard AHCI driver, and put the new motherboard's drivers on the desktop before shutting down the old machine. In each case it booted right up. I don't like sysprep generalize because it resets too many of my customizations. As mentioned, did not use usb 3.0 ports at first bootup either.

yes that's what I'm saying. Windows 7 is more boot/upgrade tolerant than previous versions just as long as it can load the hard drive controller, you just have to remember to set the bios to ahci on the new machine (assuming you don't use raid) and load the generic drive controller in device manager before shutting down the old machine for the final time. If it had not worked, I would have gone back and rebooted the hard drive while attached to the old motherboard and then done a sysprep generalize.