I have a new Thinkpad P50 which came with Windows 10. Once I received it, I realized a couple of softwares do not work with Windows 10. Then, ordered a brand new Windows 7 Pro OEM from Amazon to clean install on my machine. But the problem is that my computer no way lets me install it:- I can't change booting sequence in my BIOS have to go inside Windows 10 first!- After entering Windows 10, when I execute setup.ext in the Windows 7 DVD, it asks me for missing drivers without even mentioning which driver it needs.I called cutomers service, they are not able to solve this problem unfortunately!Please help!Thanks and I appreciate your times in advance. Please see.There are multiple utilities available from multiple vendors (including Microsoft, Intel, Gigabyte, ASUS, etc.) dealing with the missing drivers required to do a Win7 install on a Skylake-based motherboard. USB support for mouse/keyboard with Skylake requires USB 3.0 (no matter that the mouse and keyboard are USB 2.0 devices), and the original Win7 installer doesn't have built-in support for USB 3.0.Similarly, if you want to install to an NVMe target device (rather than an ordinary 2/5' SATA HDD spinner or 2.5'/M.2 SATA SSD) you will also run into the fact that the original Win7 installer doesn't have built-in support for NVMe.
It only supported IDE and SATA drives.The solution for both issues is to create a new updated Win7 installer (on bootable USB most conveniently) using one of the various available utilities which now contains the missing drivers. Far cry 3 for xbox 360 free download torrent. You just need your standard Win7 installer media (either on optical DVD, USB or ISO file) and the utility will 'slipstream' create a new updated output Win7 installer media on USB which now also includes the required missing drivers (at least the required USB 3.0 drivers for most utilities, and even the missing NVMe drivers from the Gigabyte utility).Note that ordinarily, on old machines (which supported mouse/keyboard from the BIOS with either USB 2.0 or via PS/2 connectors) you could always add any missing drivers early in the install using F6.
You would then provide the missing drivers on some external media (floppy disk, USB, CD). But you need to be able to press F6 to do this, which is on the keyboard. So you absolutely must have support for the keyboard in order to do anything. Hence the insurmountable problem with Skylake and the original Win7 installer, which requires new installation media to contain the absolutely required USB 3.0 driver for mouse/keyboard (as the P50 and almost no desktop motherboards any longer do not have PS/2 connectors).As far as the license key, your P50 comes with an imprinted imbedded OEM license key for both Win10 and Win7, right there in the UEFI BIOS.
I believe the Win7 installer won't even ask you for a Win7 license key at the start of the installation, because it can pick it up directly from the UEFI BIOS.Let us know if this solves your problem. Dear DSperber,Thank you for the reply. I also read your other related posts but those didn't solve my problem. Game free download for computer.
I am still working on this issue and unfortunately it is taking too long. Considering that I have an original bootable oem DVD from Microsoft, I don't need to make a bootbale usb - unless I have to because of those driver issues. As a quick summary:- The error promts I receive during Windows 7 installation are missing drivers w/o indicating which driver needed- As I read articles, the main driver is Samsung NVMe driver, which I found and downloaded.
Without this driver, installation never starts.- Once the installation starts copying files, in the middle of installation it escapes out prompting that Windows couldn't find driversAs a conclusion, I am not aware and have no clue what drivers I should look for and where. I am trying now random stuffs with random files to see if I am able to resolve this issue.I appreciate any detailed help on this matter.Thank you! As I said, the crucial missing piece is the Intel USB 3.0 driver which is required to support USB mouse/keyboard on Skylake hardware.I don't know how you got to specify where the Samsung NVMe Controller driver was to be read from by the installer, unless it got automatically read from USB? Is that the media you'd made it available on?
You didn't give details on how this was resolved.But it is almost certainly the missing USB 3.0 driver that the installer is complaining about. There is no other way to make them available other than to generate a new install media (on USB for maximum convenience, honestly) by merging together your existing install DVD with the USB 3.0 driver files. That is exactly what all of the manufacturers' utilities do, so it seems pretty reasonable to believe this is the correct (and certainly only) solution. Your original install DVD will simply not work.Honestly. Just download the Gigabyte utility, and run it.
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It will produce a new bootable USB drive (say 8GB is perfectly large enough) that is the sum of your Win7 install DVD and the USB 3.0 drivers (which are included with the Gigabyte utility) and also the Samsung NVMe drivers (which are included with the Gigabyte utility). You'll have your problem solved in 15 minutes, and you can get on with the Win7 install. I have tried different Gigabyte utilites software to make 'drivers-included' usb bootable drive with my genuine copy of Windows. After several runs and checking different sources / options, the result was not successful. The error message I get is pretty clear: 'Failed to add drivers to an Offiline Windows Image'.If you have clear and detailed solution for this, please let me know. If I can't resolve this issue today, I guess there might be other complicated problem out of my control and then need to return my laptop.Thanks for your time in advance.
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I don't know what Gigabyte utility you downloaded and tried to use, unsuccessfully.I can only say that I built my own Win7 USB install media by using, which is exactly what I referred you to earlier. You download that file, unzip, and follow the very simple instructions:1) Open the tool from GIGABYTE. There's no need to install it.2) In the source option select your disc drive3) In the destination path pick your USB drive.4) Make sure the 'add USB drivers' option is selected5) Click start and wait for the process to finish.Note: if you just need to add the USB drivers to an existing ISO you can do that from the source option.Again, the Gigabyte utility is on the whole problem of installing Win7 on this new hardware, and the solution using their newly devloped utility. The Gigabyte utility is, referred to on that page as the 'Windows USB Installation Tool to Support Intel 100 series motherboards'.They wrote the utility to make it trivially easy to solve this exact problem for their own customers that you're now facing with your own situation, simply adding the missing USB 3.0 driver to your existing Win7 installer (on DVD or ISO file), producing a new bootable USB key drive.
. Please follow the steps below:. Prepare an USB flash drive and go to Microsoft official web site to build a Windows 7 USB installation disk.
Click to download Windows USB Installation Tool. Unzip the file and execute WindowsImageTool. Make sure Windows 7 USB installation disk is plugged in. Select None-Add USB drivers in Source Path. Choose Windows 7 USB installation disk in Destination Path. Click Start to run and Close when the procedure is done.
Insert the Windows 7 USB flash drive to the computer you intend to install Windows 7. Turn on the computer and press F12 during POST to enter boot menu. Select the Windows 7 USB flash drive to start installation procedure.
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