windows 7 usb 3.0 creator utility onto the usb drive

For convenience, I’ve added the latest drivers (as of the time of writing) for the most common USB 3.0 controllers. Look up your Motherboard’s drivers and see which ones you need. My motherboard used Intel USB 3.0 drivers, and so I downloaded the latest version from Intel’s site.

Well, I didn’t give up, I knew there had to be a way to add the necessary drivers to the installer, and it turns out there is! Adding support for USB 3.0 also works great if you want to install from a fast USB 3.0 flash drive! The entire install takes about 5 minutes with one of those.įor your installer to work with your computer, make sure you grab the proper USB 3.0 drivers. However, my GIGABYTE BRIX had no such option that I could find. If your BIOS has an option to turn off USB 3.0, that is probably the easiest option. In fact, it doesn’t even know what to do with those ports once the BIOS hands over control to the installer image. It was at this point I decided to start Googling my problem, and low and behold I quickly discovered that Windows 7 does not have drivers for USB 3.0 built in. I tried a couple of other things, like grabbing an older PS/2 keyboard and connecting it via a PS/2 to USB adapter. The keyboard and mouse worked great in the BIOS, but as soon as the Windows 7 installation media loaded and presented that familiar Language Select screen, I had no cursor or keyboard. I recently had this problem when trying to install Win 7 onto my Gigabyte Brix XM12-3227.

If you have tried to install Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive on a system that only has USB 3.0 ports, you might have found that you couldn’t get past the Language Select screen of the installer as your keyboard and mouse didn’t work.

Windows 7 usb 3.0 creator utility onto the usb drive