NOTE: These links are being offered for your convenience and should not be viewed as an endorsement by Intel of the content, products, or services offered there.Īny further questions, please let me know. Please let us know the results of trying the steps above. On the link below you will find the link to install it, but also in there you will see another method to try to inject the USB 3.0 drivers, which is by using the DISM Graphical User Interface (GUI) Tool:īesides that, as it was mentioned previously, make sure that the ISO image is working properly, if it is possible to create the image from the Windows installation disc it will be better and then use Rufus to make it bootable: If you are going to use the Intel® Windows® 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility, if it is possible, please use the tool on a PC that has Windows® 8.1 installed, I installed the drives that way and it worked with no problems. We normally recommend to install Windows® 7 on legacy mode, but it should work both ways. Robert1999, Thank you very much for joining the Intel® NUC communities. Scott Pearson for sharing the suggestions above. This link has a very long winded way of integrating the usb3 drivers manually but it is very long winded, a few people seem to think this works Installing Windows 7 on the NUC5CPYH or NUC5PPYH (Braswell NUC) The NUC Blog

I found a post on the NUC forum and there is a bit where someone says the Intel usb tool does not work with my model of NUC6. It must work because i installed win7 up to a point but the usb devices stopped working when it comes to the screen to enter a username and password. I used the Intel usb tool which integrates the usb 3 drivers with your win7 install files on the usb drive. I got win7 installed by making my usb drive bootable using the command prompt.

The win7 image i have does have a load of updates integrated so it may well be a problem with the iso.

Rufus fails too but i read it could be a corrupt iso, i can use Rufus it to just format the drive ok but when i try to copy the image to the usb drive with Rufus it fails. The Microsoft usb download tool does not recognise my usb drive. I am aware that i need to integrate the usb3 drivers into the windows install files on the usb drive.

I want to install win7 from my usb2 external drive. I had a thought that i could plug the Samsung ssd from the nuc into my htpc or laptop, get past the username screen, install the Intel usb3 drivers, remove and refit the hard drive to the nuc. I can get windows 7 installed but i get stuck at the screen to select a username and password, my wireless keyboard and mouse cease to work and also my wired usb keyboard does not work.įirstly should i use UEFI or Legacy mode for booting my NUC with win7? I bought a NUC6i3SYH, Samsung 850 ssd and 4gb Kingston Ram.

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