How to InstallWindows 7 through USB 3.0 port?You are here: How to Install Windows 7 through USB 3.0 port?When installing Windows 7 through USB drive on new skylake system, you mayreceive the following error message,'A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.' In such case, the installation can't continue. The problem is caused by a missing USB 3.0 driverin the Windows 7 installation package. The Windows 7 installation program doesn'trecognize the new USB 3.0 port, hence we need patch the driver to theinstallation package.

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Please follow the steps,Step 1 - Create Windows 7 bootableUSB drive from Windows 7 ISO fileYou can find the detail procedure. Let'sassume the USB drive has the drive letter H: after you have created Windows 7bootable USB drive successfully.Step 2 - Download and unpack Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host ControllerDriverYou maydownload it from.There are two zip files for the driver. Just unzip them to a local folder,with different sub folder for each file, for example, C:USB3driver1, and C:USB3driver2.Step 3 - RunPowerISO DISM ToolRun PowerISO, and select the menu, 'Tools - DISMTool'.On Windows vista or above Windows operating systems, you will need confirm UACdialog to continue.Step4 - Mount WIM file in the USB driveIn 'DISM Tool' dialog,select 'Mount / Unmount' page, and click the button'Mount.' .The'Mount image' dialog will popup. Click 'Browse' button toselect the boot WIM file in USB drive, for example, H:sourcesboot.wim.Selectthe image index from the list, usually, it should be '2: Microsoft WindowsSetup (x64)' for 64-bit Windows 7 ISO file, or '2: Microsoft WindowsSetup (x86)' for 32-bit Windows 7 ISO file.Create an empty folder, forexample, C:mount, and select it for the mountpath.Click 'Mount' to mount the image in WIM file to the specifiedpath.Youshould get the message, 'The operation completed successfully' afterthe image has been successfully mounted to the specified the path.

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Click'OK' to close the message box.Step5 - Patch drivers into the imageSelect 'Driver Servicing' page,and select 'C:mount' from the mounteddirectories list.Click 'Add driver.' Button.The'Add driver' dialog will popup. Select 'C:usb3'for the driver folder, and check the option, 'Recurse - Query allsubfolders for drives'.Click 'OK' to add the drivers to theimage.Youshould see the message like below after the operation completes. Click'OK' to close the message box.Step6 - Unmount WIM fileSelect 'Mount / Unmount' page, and select'C:mount' from the images list.Click'Unmount' button.The'Unmount image' dialog will popup. Make sure the unmount path is'C:mount', and check the option,'Commit - Save the changes when unmounting image file'. Click 'Unmount'to unmount the image.Youshould get the message below after the operation completed successfully.Youmight receive the error message below when unmounting the image,The directory could not be completely unmounted. This is usually due to applications that still have files opened withinthe mount directory.

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Close these files and unmount again to complete the unmount process.Insuch case, please close all programs which might open the files in mounteddirectory, especially close all Explorer Windows, and then try unmounting theimage again.Step 7 - Patch drivers to install.wimRepeat step 4 to step 6 topatch drives to install.wim. Usually install.wim can be found in the sourcesfolder, for example, the full path name looks like H:sourcesinstall.wim.Ifthere are several images in install.wim, you need select the correct image topatch. If you are not sure which image should be patched, you can patch allimages in install.wim (repeat step 4 to step 6 for each image in the wim file).Step 8 - Install Windows 7 from the patched USB driveYou havepatched the USB 3.0 driver to Windows 7 installation package successfully. Youcan now use it to install Windows 7 from the USB 3.0 port, which is present inmost new skylake computers. Please also make sure that the BIOS is properly configured for booting from the USB device.Copyright 2004-2019 Power Software Ltd. All rights reserved.