{"id":2990,"date":"2017-06-08T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2023-08-25T22:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:44:22","slug":"how-to-install-windows-7-on-intel-nuc-with-usb-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/06\/08\/how-to-install-windows-7-on-intel-nuc-with-usb-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Windows 7 on Intel NUC with USB 3.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"win7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/win7_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"win7\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Recently I stumbled upon an interesting problem. The question was, how to manage a Windows 7 install on an Intel NUC system with USB 3.0. This is causing issues, because Windows 7 doesn't provides USB 3.0 support during setup.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The question was raised from an administrator within a German forum. He was ordered, to exchange a lot of Office PCs with Intel NUCs. The company is using Windows 7.<\/p>\n<h2>What's the problem?<\/h2>\n<p>The user wrote, that those Intel NUCs comes with four USB 3.0 ports. After installing Windows 7, USB 3.0 controller driver is missing, so none of the USB 3.0 ports are working. So he wasn't able to use an USB keyboard and mouse to fix this issue.<\/p>\n<h2>Fix #1: Use an additional USB 2.0 port<\/h2>\n<p>One suggestion made within the forum was to add an additional USB 2.0 port to the Intel NUC. An <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180806182834\/http:\/\/www.gorite.com:80\/nuc-lid-additional-dual-usb-20-ports-gr-lid-000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel NUC LID Additional Dual USB 2.0 Ports<\/a> is offered via Internet.<\/p>\n<h2>Fix #2: Integrate USB 3.0 driver into install image<\/h2>\n<p>Another suggestion was, to integrate the required USB 3.0 driver into the Windows 7 install image. This can be done with Microsoft's deployment tools \u2013 in case that fits, <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/pilot-and-deploy-windows-7.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Fix #3: Use Intel's Windows 7 USB 3.0-Creator-Utility<\/h2>\n<p>The coolest suggestion I 've read was, to use Intel's Windows 7 USB 3.0-Creator-Utility. This utility automates the process to create a Windows 7* installation image to include USB 3.0 drivers. You can then use the new installation image to install Windows 7 on Intel\u00ae NUC products that have only<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>USB 3.0 ports. The Windows 7 USB 3.0-Creator-Utility may be obtained from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I stumbled upon an interesting problem. The question was, how to manage a Windows 7 install on an Intel NUC system with USB 3.0. This is causing issues, because Windows 7 doesn't provides USB 3.0 support during setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[408,17],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-install-issue","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}