Question Best Way To Slipstream Drivers Into Win 7 Installation Media

[MaskedRiderChris52]

I'm fixing to install Windows 7 onto one of two laptops I have. One has a SATA SSD as boot drive, the other has an NvME, and I'm inclined to install it onto the laptop with the SATA SSD since it's an older machine (a Dell Latitude E6410). From the sound of it, Win 7 needs some finessing to play nicely and well with a SSD whether SATA or NvME? If this is the case, then what sites/links would y'all recommend I seek out with clear and concise directions as to how to pull this off correctly?

 

[TerryLaze]

Only the very first versions of win7 had issues with ssd.
If you have a more recent one it should have no issues, if it does go to the laptop maker site and look around for drivers, all you need is a "sata floppy disk" driver, it might be called something else but it will be a driver that would fit onto a floppy, so less than 1.4Mb which gives you a driver that you can install on the screen where windows asks you for a drive to install to.

You press the icon labeled Load driver and load it, from usb (decompress first) , if the ssd drive isn't recognized right away.

 

[dwd999]

The NTLite program can be used to add drivers to a Windows installer ISO but I don't know if that would work with Windows 7.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Windows 7 install doesn't normally include NVME support.

Use Gigabyte Windows USB install tool to integrate

USB drivers,​

NVME drivers,​

NVME support hotfixes​

into windows installation.

NVME drivers are generic. USB drivers may depend on motherboard.
Find closest matching windows USB install tool download.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?ck=2&kw=windows&p=1