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Computer illiterate retard fuccboi here.
I just reformatted a laptop to downgrade form win10 to win7. I have all the drivers from the manufacture's website saved to a USB thumb drive, but when I plug in the thumb drive nothing happens. I tried both the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. I was pretty sure you did not need a driver in order for a newly formatted computer to recognize a flash drive (I've done this before with an older laptop).
I really don't want to head out and buy some blank discs to burn the drivers onto if I can find a way to get my USB drive to be recognized. As if right now, none of the ones I have result in anything after being plugged in. They do flash and blink, indicating power.
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>>232428
Check the bios for any relevant settings that might be off, otherwise you're fucked cause the chipset driver isn't installed yet.
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>>232428
Windows 7 is not compatible with Skylake. You need to slipstream a USB3 EHCI driver or the setup program won't be able to read its own media.
Windows 7 is not compatible with UEFI, unless you're booting Windows 7 x64 from an actual DVD.
Windows 7 is not signed for Secure Boot, so you must disable Secure Boot in the BIOS if you want to boot Windows 7 or its installer using UEFI.
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>>232437
All of which he knows because he's installed it already
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>>232428
Yes I've had this problem, either write them to disk or take out the HDD plug it into something else and copy across to c
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>>232441
Except if he did, he'd have thought to slipstream an EHCI driver and would have working USB ports.
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>>232447
but we are speaking after the fact, hindsight is just a luxury at this stage, you just want to sound like you know what ya talking about without actually helping
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>>232461
Yeah, if you knew it beforehand it would be called "foresight".
Suck it up, slipstream and reinstall.
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>>232428
- Create Windows 10 USB using free Media Creation Tool
- Copy drivers onto Windows 10 USB
- Boot off Windows 10 USB
- Shift-f10
- copy files over
This will work, because NTFS is NTFS, but Windows 10's hardware support is actually up to date.
Fun fact: Windows 10 USBs can also repair MBR and VBR for Windows all the way back to NT 4.0. It can reinstall NTLDR if you put a copy on the USB in a safe place somewhere. It can restore system image backups made by any Windows back to Vista.
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