The strange outcome of this is the misleading “ A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing” error. The chipsets don’t support plain-old USB 2.0 sockets. Many, if not all laptops these days are USB 3.0 only. This makes a “clean” install impossible without some work. OEM images like Lenovo’s preload and recovery media will include appropriate drivers but Microsoft media will not.

Lack of USB 3.0 drivers can make the install media unbootable (past the initial boot) and lack of NVMe SSD drivers can render the target drive invisible to the installer. This has become more of an issue lately with Windows 7 installs and contemporary hardware. It’s the same old story: hardware marches on, and operating systems play catch-up. This is the 4th and final (for now…) in a set of small articles on modification and use of Windows 7 install media: multi-version, UEFI boot, driver injection, and downgrade activation. Those with weak stomachs may want to look away…

It may be worse watching install media being modified.

- Implement checking for and validating against md5sum.You know what they say about watching sausage getting made.

- Easy USB Creator crashes on run on platforms without.

- High DPI scaling support in USB Creator.

Support cases where the MBR index of the sole partition on the USB does not equal to 0.

Validate that the target USB has only 1 primary partition.

Fixed an error causing Easy USB Creator to crash when starting a job due to cross-thread UI access.

USB creation progress is now reflected in the taskbar icon on Windows 7+.

Fix crash on Windows XP and Windows Vista on start of USB creation with a FileNotFoundException pointing at TaskbarList.dll.

Support for creating bootable jump drives from Linux setup ISO images is coming soon. With a single click, it can turn Windows setup DVDs and various recovery utilities (such as our own Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows) into bootable USB drives that can be used to install or recover Windows on the go.Įasy USB Creator runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows, and currently supports the creating bootable USBs of the following versions of Windows:Įasy USB Creator can also create bootable USB sticks for recovery utilities and repair environments.

Usb 3.0 creator utility for windows 7