![]() Windows 7 update now includes UEFI boot, older versions had to be copied to flash drive & a couple of files moved/renamed. Note all systems since 2012 are UEFI since Microsoft required Windows 8 to be installed in UEFI boot mode. Last edited by nerv-agent April 1st, 2019 at 03:32 AM. That update has disrupted so much of my free time in an attempt to fix this mess that I'm seriously thinking of using Windows 10. ![]() Just wasted my entire Sunday dealing with this when I was supposed to be visiting family this weekend. How do I install Windows 7 from a USB drive on a modern motherboard? I've been scouring Google all day and keep finding "solutions" that don't even work. Ultimately, they couldn't help me and I wasted time with that phone call. I called Dell technical support and they told me to change the BIOS settings which I already did. I try booting from it, and I keep getting the error: I right clicked on the ISO file itself and used Disc Image Writer and it seemed like it made a bootable drive. I used WoeUSB to make a bootable USB drive, got an error. I changed my BIO settings as described here (I'm on a Dell Precision 7520 laptop): ![]() I downloaded a legitimate Windows 7 ISO from Microsoft with my license key. A continuation of this unresolved hot mess. ![]()
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