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Gigabyte Windows 7 USB Installation Tool

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Every now and then, I see a thread about someone having a difficulty installing Windows 7 on modern hardware.

Sure, a lot of people seem to dislike Windows 10, but Windows 7 lacks native support for USB 3, NVMe and Thunderbolt.

Gigabyte for a long time offers a small utility that injects the required drivers to Windows 7 installation media.

It works for both AMD and Intel platforms (even the latest ones), and you can even create a USB installation media with it.

Gigabyte Windows 7 USB Installation Tool | Mirror
 
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To do NVME and Coffee Lake on 7 last time I used Samsung's cloning software to move a SATA install made using the PS2 simulator on the Asrock board to the NVME, this is probably easier and more straight forward, thanks for sharing it.
 
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