Windows 7 and USB3 on Z490 Chipset Difficulties - Help Requested
by enorbet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59RJR)
Greetings
First of all please let me ward off any posts to tell me that Win7 will only be supported for another 2 months. I don't care and I'm not worried.
I can simply disconnect networking for 95% of what I still need any Windows for and I am absolutely NEVER going to buy Win10. In fact this sort of manipulation only adds to my reasons to dismiss Microsoft. Additionally and for example, it is already known that many hardware drivers labelled "Win10 only" aren't actually "only". Many apparently run just fine on Win7, or they did with Z390 systems, and that's my main remaining usage - some hardware drivers.
Currently I have a Z77 USB 3 machine with working Win 7 installed. So far partition cloning, copying to System32 safe mode generic USB drivers, and even reworked Win Install media via Rufus as well as Gigabytes (generic) EZInstaller have all failed to work on my new Z490 system. Simply put I can't type or click to even login to run the setup disk or setup apps or do a repair install.
Any specific suggestions to installing chipset/usb drivers for Z490 to Win7 are gratefully welcome. Thank you in advance for any help or even ideas you may have.
First of all please let me ward off any posts to tell me that Win7 will only be supported for another 2 months. I don't care and I'm not worried.
I can simply disconnect networking for 95% of what I still need any Windows for and I am absolutely NEVER going to buy Win10. In fact this sort of manipulation only adds to my reasons to dismiss Microsoft. Additionally and for example, it is already known that many hardware drivers labelled "Win10 only" aren't actually "only". Many apparently run just fine on Win7, or they did with Z390 systems, and that's my main remaining usage - some hardware drivers.
Currently I have a Z77 USB 3 machine with working Win 7 installed. So far partition cloning, copying to System32 safe mode generic USB drivers, and even reworked Win Install media via Rufus as well as Gigabytes (generic) EZInstaller have all failed to work on my new Z490 system. Simply put I can't type or click to even login to run the setup disk or setup apps or do a repair install.
Any specific suggestions to installing chipset/usb drivers for Z490 to Win7 are gratefully welcome. Thank you in advance for any help or even ideas you may have.