Windows 7 Professional: Stuck at Installation. *USB 3.0 Ports*

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Dwiessner3221

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Hello. I have just built my new PC 2 days ago. Everything with the build went fine and smooth, except for the Windows 7 Professional Installation.

I am booting Windows 7 Professional from a USB thumb stick. It loads all the files, and I click Install Now, but when the setup is starting, a message appears stating: "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now."

I know the problem is that Windows 7 Professional does not support USB 3.0 ports, which is why it is not recognizing the USB thumb stick.

My motherboard does not have any USB 2.0 ports to be found. So I am still stuck at this installation page for over 2 days.

My BIOS does not have an option to disable the 3.0 ports into 2.0 ports.

If anyone has a solution to this problem, please leave your answer below.
 
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drtweak
Ok so 2 things we can do.

1)Yes your motherboard has USB 2.0 but you have to install USB Headers as they connections are on the bottom of the motherborad. So unless you get them, or if your case has USB 2.0 on it you can connect them to the USB 2.0 at the bottom of the motherboard.

2) Other option as i said is use RT7Lite to intergrade the USB drivers into the Windows 7 install it self.

There is a 3rd option that i use ALOT.

You can use the Program Macrium Reflect to make a Bootable Rescue disk. This will load up the program (Used for disk cloning/imaging) in a windows PE or Windows Live enviroment. As long as Win PE 5.0 is uses it does have USB 3.0 support. You can then just browse to the Windows Setup file that is on the thumb...
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drtweak

drtweak

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What motherboard do you have?

If you really do not have any USB 2.0 port then you have two options. 1) Made a bootable DVD 2) Slipstream the USB 3.0 drivers that are for your motherboard into your windows 7 install. Need to use a program like RT7Lite to do it.
 
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drtweak

drtweak

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Ok so 2 things we can do.

1)Yes your motherboard has USB 2.0 but you have to install USB Headers as they connections are on the bottom of the motherborad. So unless you get them, or if your case has USB 2.0 on it you can connect them to the USB 2.0 at the bottom of the motherboard.

2) Other option as i said is use RT7Lite to intergrade the USB drivers into the Windows 7 install it self.

There is a 3rd option that i use ALOT.

You can use the Program Macrium Reflect to make a Bootable Rescue disk. This will load up the program (Used for disk cloning/imaging) in a windows PE or Windows Live enviroment. As long as Win PE 5.0 is uses it does have USB 3.0 support. You can then just browse to the Windows Setup file that is on the thumb drive while in a 3.0 port and install it.
 
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