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Hello Horus the Elder, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)
You will be able to install Windows 7 with Legacy BIOS or UEFI with Windows 10 installed with UEFI.
It's really depends on your personal preference, but it would be better to install Windows 7 with UEFI if you install Windows 10 with UEFI.
If I went with win7 MBR and win10 uefi wouldn't that mean I would have to switch OSes by changing back and forth from legacy to uefi every boot change?
Also, I was wondering why the previous poster recommended against win7 with uefi, I have seen others with this sentiment but no real explanation of why other than "compatibility". Compatibility with what? Thanks!
If you were just installing Windows 7 by itself, then yeah using Legacy BIOS instead would be best since UEFI really isn't at its best until Windows 8.1 and above instead.
If you go W7 MBR and W10 UEFI, then I'd recommend installing Windows 10 first, then install W7 to a primary partition or different disk.
Hello there!
Do i really need to disable Secure boot before installation Windows 7? I am on Maximus VII Hero and want to install UEFI from USB drive.
I also modified my Install.wim file by integrating Windows updates into it and now i am getting error while copying that this file is too big for this file system. Is it possible to create a bootable USB flash drive with NTFS file system and boot from it? Btw, i always prefer manual create a bootable flash drive using CMD.
Last edited by KotTHECat; 17 Feb 2016 at 16:15.
I would just like to give a great shout out to Shawn Brink. Through this thread and Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk with only minor hiccups, I now have full use of my 3 1TB SSD's running Raid0 into a single drive. The only issue I have is a permission one. If I try to modify anything in the system files, I get this "You don't have permission to save in this location" I am the only user on my laptop. Thanks again Shawn
That's great news so far deuce.
You won't be able to save directly to a system folder from an external source by default. To workaround this, you could save the file to say your desktop first, then move the file to a system folder. :)
I just wanted to comment that I had a similar problem for the last few days and here is what I had to do to solve it:
1. I own a DVD copy of Windows 7 Ultimate - create an ISO of the DVD
2. Use microsofts USB utility to create the USB installer
3. Use INTELs utility to load the USB 3.0 drivers into the images on the USB installer
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...reator-Utility
Note: this took a while, probably at least 20+ minutes to complete, but it did work.
4. on the target PC connect the USB installer to any USB 3.0 port and install.
The problem that I was having was my new MoBo had only 2 legacy USB 2.0 ports, but I had my USB keyboard and mouse connected to USB 3.0 ports. Windows was having trouble detecting them because it could tell they were on ports it didn't have drivers for. I realised this because during the "failing" installs (which we failing with the "driver required" messages) my mouse was moving very lethargically "generically" you might say. However, after installing the USB 3.0 drivers, and user the "fixed" USB installer my mouse was responding rapidly as I would have expected.
I believe that as a workaround users should TRY and unplug everything from any USB port except a legacy USB 2.0 port. In my case I would have had to remove my keyboard while insalling windows and just use the mouse, and hopefully hot-swap them back and forth. I am not even sure that would work, so good luck if you try that. Otherwise, I suggest you use the linked intel utility to load the USB 3.0 drivers onto you existing Windows 7 USB Installer.
Hardware:
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
USB Keyboard
USB Mouse
USB Thumbdrive loaded with Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Hello.
I'm new and saw your tutorials about Windows 7 UEFI installation and thanks for your tutos :)
I just want to add some details if anyone have trouble for installation because I had it and understand why
first of all, Windows 7 X64 is not fully UEFI and need CSM functions in order to boot
Indeed, I made some test with TOSHIBA R930 and LENOVO X and E series.
Simply
For TOSHIBA R930 => Bios purpose UEFI ONLY
for LENOVO => Bios purpose UEFI with CSM support
So, the problem is not about tutorial but official isos not updated since UEFI is now used and what Bios from differents laptops allow
Finally, in order to have W7 UEFI, you have to check first your laptop Bios configuration.
For all they have desk or laptop with only USB 3.0
you must add drivers in your USB installation
file is Win7_USB3.0_Creator_v2
and contain USB_3.0_Win7_64_4.0.0.36
Have a nice day.
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