Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H boot to USB flash drive issue

[wllmgrms]

So I have Windows 7 ISO on my USB thumb drive, but my board wont pick it up. It reads the drive, but not the ISO that's mounted on it. I used Free ISO to USB to put it on their. I've changed everything I can read and think of to get Windows to install on my new rig from the flash drive. I thought I had something figured out with CD/DVD USB drive that I have, but Windows Installation needed a driver for it before it could install... so no luck there.

Anyone got any ideas? Maybe the program I used to mount the ISO on the flash drive?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://wudt.codeplex.com/
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/install-windows-7-usb.htm

And ^

 

[wllmgrms]

I was able to get it to mount on a flash drive by using a different flash drive. Now my problem is the Windows Load driver error while attempting to install from flash drive... I read about it for the past couple of hours and cannot for the life of me figure it out. My USB ports will not read another USB device while the flash drive with the ISO is on it. So that leaves me thinking it's a USB 3.0 issue. I have 2, 2.0 ports, but they don't change the way the flash drive, or any other one is read...

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/home_is_where_i_lay_my_head/archive/2012/10/02/how-to-install-windows-7-or-8-from-usb-using-uefi.aspx

 

[wllmgrms]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot step-by-step and see how the outcome is this time...

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Keep us posted !

 

[wllmgrms]

Still the same thing... it starts the Windows Installation and then gives the following...

"Load Driver

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.
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step."

I've read a lot about it being a USB 3.0 driver issue... but I can't get it to detect drivers on a flash drive. It just detects the flash drive with windows iso and that's it.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/a-required-cddvd-device-driver-is-missing-usb/61eda679-66cc-4512-b175-d02871394461?auth=1

 

[wllmgrms]

That didn't work either. It's still giving me the same error message...

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You sure the ISO is valid.

 

[wllmgrms]

Yes it is.

I actually just updated my BIOS and it is now working. It must have been a BIOS config that was preventing it from booting from the flash drive properly. Thought about updating the BIOS several times, but didn't actually think that was the fix.

Thanks for all the input, I appreciate it!