Hello!
I recently purchased a NUC6i5 system. Once up and running to my liking, it will be replacing the Skylake i5 system I built earlier this year. Now i would prefer to have Windows 7 running on the NUC at this time. (I like the overall feeling of W7 over 10. ironically this is being typed on a W10 laptop) Here is what I have done so far. Long story short.
Downloaded and ran the USB 3.0 Creator utility for the Windows 7 USB drive I have. I would get to the last image, at which point it would stop working and give a message of the program needs to close. Yes I was running this program on a Windows 10 laptop and with admin privileges. So I figured maybe it was something wrong with the ISO copy on the jump drive.
Next I download a minty fresh copy of the Windows 7 64 bit ISO from the microsoft website. Created another USB booting drive and try the USB creator again. Same result. Crashes right at the end of the program. Right now I have the NUC running on Windows 10. Since everything is USB 3.0 native, there was no issues installing.
My question is, what am I doing wrong here? I mean this should not be this hard to install Windows 7 to a USB 3 based system with the Intel utility. Any thing to be offered here? Thanks for the advice.
I recently purchased a NUC6i5 system. Once up and running to my liking, it will be replacing the Skylake i5 system I built earlier this year. Now i would prefer to have Windows 7 running on the NUC at this time. (I like the overall feeling of W7 over 10. ironically this is being typed on a W10 laptop) Here is what I have done so far. Long story short.
Downloaded and ran the USB 3.0 Creator utility for the Windows 7 USB drive I have. I would get to the last image, at which point it would stop working and give a message of the program needs to close. Yes I was running this program on a Windows 10 laptop and with admin privileges. So I figured maybe it was something wrong with the ISO copy on the jump drive.
Next I download a minty fresh copy of the Windows 7 64 bit ISO from the microsoft website. Created another USB booting drive and try the USB creator again. Same result. Crashes right at the end of the program. Right now I have the NUC running on Windows 10. Since everything is USB 3.0 native, there was no issues installing.
My question is, what am I doing wrong here? I mean this should not be this hard to install Windows 7 to a USB 3 based system with the Intel utility. Any thing to be offered here? Thanks for the advice.