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Trouble re-installing Windows 7 Pro

Windex 10
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I can't get past part one of re-installing Windows 7, and it always shows a dialog that says: " A required CD/DVD driver device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now." and I don't have an optical disk drive in my laptop; I've tried rebooting my PC, and following the same installation process from a Kingston 16GB DataTraveler50

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Just curios, buy why Win7?  Don't have any problems like that with Win10.

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I don't like that Microsoft got rid of themes and some other stuff, and i have a problem with my fingerprint reader and touchpad

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Have you try to run the setup.exe from the ISO directly from your desktop

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How have you created USB? You might have issues with USB3 ports only.

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I used the Dell USB Recovery tool; and my PC has USB 3.0

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16 hours ago, Windex 10 said:

I used the Dell USB Recovery tool; and my PC has USB 3.0

Well, there's your issue. Recovery requires that you already have supported OS installed. Or rights to downgrade. If you try with clean ISO, USB3 becomes only issue. Win7 doesn't have native support for USB3.

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Oh, I could make Windows 10 look like Windows 7, but how do I do that

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The missing driver message is due to not having USB 3.0 drivers in the Windows 7 installer, and so it can't be loaded from your USB 3.0 drive.

 

You can add USB 3.0 driver to your Windows 7 installer with a program like MSI's Smart tool: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=261560.0

 

Instructions for the MSI Smart tool: https://www.msi.com/files/pdf/SMART_TOOL_User_Guide_EN.pdf

 

 

Gigabyte also has a similar tool.

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