Questions about Windows 7 installs

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ZephyrStar

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Hello all-

I'm about to purchase a new AMD X470 based system with a Ryzen 2000 series chip. My intention is to run Windows 7 64 pro on it, and I have a physical SP1 disc on hand to work with. The way I see it I will have 3 challenges.

1) Booting from USB 3 port - I'm assuming if I get the AMD chipset drivers, and they include a USB3 driver, I can add it in the drivers section of my slipstream?

2) Installing to an NVME SSD - Same as above, can I just slipstream KB2990941 and KB3087873 for NVME support, or for example the Samsung 960 pro drivers (which is the hardware I'll be installing the OS to)?

3) Booting on UEFI bios - This there was an old manual trick for extracting/moving bootmgfw.efi and renaming it to bootx64.efi in order to boot a USB flash drive on UEFI bios, will I still need to do that manually?

I'm sure I can test this once I have the hardware in hand, but I'm trying to gather the resources ahead of time so I'll know what I'm doing.
Thanks everyone, appreciate the help, and THANK YOU for making NTLite, it's such a great tool.
 
Direct from amd, realtek etc or a trusted source like win-raid. Can can you generate a Hardware List with NTLite on it when you manage to get it up and running, you can do that in Free mode please. I doubt it will differ much from A88X chipsets but it will help to generate Ryzen hardware specific presets. :)
 
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Quite possibly, I'll try it and see. I'm coming from some pretty old workstation hardware, and I have an old (used, bought off ebay) HPZ620 dual xeon that suffered a performance hit as well :( Ahh well, I guess I'll "need" a Threadripper 2 setup haha!
 
Easiest, and I mean the easiest way to get past AMD based builds and USB3.0 to work on start up is to download the Windows Image Tool. So once you have your custom image built in NT and have burned that ISO to a USB, you will need to run the Windows Image Tool right afterwards (not the computer that is being built, but where you are imaging). The tool will add NVMe, USB3.0 etc directly to the USB and it will load perfectly. Site from Gigabyte http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2015/09/having-trouble-installing-windows-7-by.html

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I have used this tool on ASUS, GB, and MSI.
*always use at your own risk*
 
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