Issues Installing OS

[Snappy]

Hey guys, more issues it seems.

 

So I've recently put (most of) my PC together (all that's left out is the graphics card) and I'm installing Windows 7 on it.

Or so I THOUGHT.

So I watched the NCIX Tech Tips video walkthrough on how to install Windows 7 through a bootable USB drive. And I followed the video instructions to the PIXEL. And then I went into my UEFI panel and set its boot order as primary, so my PC recognised the USB drive. But whenever I get through to the panel where I select the drive I want to install from, the drive is nowhere to be seen and I'm clueless as to why.
Can someone please give me a hand with this?

[meenmeen1103]

Did you leave all other options in BIOS in factory configuration? More importantly leave fast boot disabled at very least for now, preferably for good.

[Snappy]

No, I did fiddle around with a few settings. Should I set them to default?

[Snappy]

9 minutes ago, meenmeen1103 said:

Did you leave all other options in BIOS in factory configuration? More importantly leave fast boot disabled at very least for now, preferably for good.

I would also like to mention that I didn't change anything that I knew was going to screw my system up or anything. I enabled XMP, changed boot drive priority etc

[meenmeen1103]

1 minute ago, Snappy said:

I would also like to mention that I didn't change anything that I knew was going to screw my system up or anything. I enabled XMP, changed boot drive priority etc

Could be that the motherboard recognizes the drive in BIOS, but not as a bootable drive. I'm not familiar with that video, but what usb media creation tool did you use? I know rufus 2.0 has worked for me without fail when working with .iso OS files.

[Snappy]

I just followed this NCIX video:

 

[OsuMasterz]

What USB ports are you using?

[Snappy]

12 minutes ago, OsuMasterz said:

What USB ports are you using?

Just standard USB 2.0 ports

I can select my USB as a boot drive, but its failed to appear at the install screen every time

[LogicalDrm]

19 minutes ago, Snappy said:

I just followed this NCIX video:

That is really old video and there are easier ways to create bootable USB. Microsoft has their own tool, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 or you can use universal tool like Rufus if you already have .ISO (or don't want to use MS one) https://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

Newer video how-to:

Spoiler

 

 

[Snappy]

9 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

That is really old video and there are easier ways to create bootable USB. Microsoft has their own tool, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 or you can use universal tool like Rufus if you already have .ISO (or don't want to use MS one) https://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

 

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I know the video says Windows 8.1, but does it work for Windows 7 also? And I'm normally pretty crap at software, that's why I thought the NCIX step by step video would have worked.

 

[LogicalDrm]

2 minutes ago, Snappy said:

 

If you watch video, Linus says Win7. Plus first link I put there was for Win7. Both tools work for all Windows versions. You just need .ISO.