How to Install Windows 7 with only USB 3. Ports. Background. If you have tried to install Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive on a system that only has USB 3. Language Select screen of the installer as your keyboard and mouse didnt work. Usb Controller Driver For Windows 7 64 Bit Lenovo A1000I recently had this problem when trying to install Win 7 onto my Gigabyte Brix XM1. The keyboard and mouse worked great in the BIOS, but as soon as the Windows 7 installation media loaded and presented that familiar Language Select screen, I had no cursor or keyboard. I tried a couple of other things, like grabbing an older PS2 keyboard and connecting it via a PS2 to USB adapter. Same problem.  It was at this point I decided to start Googling my problem, and low and behold I quickly discovered that Windows 7 does not have drivers for USB 3. In fact, it doesnt even know what to do with those ports once the BIOS hands over control to the installer image. If your BIOS has an option to turn off USB 3. However, my GIGABYTE BRIX had no such option that I could find. Well, I didnt give up, I knew there had to be a way to add the necessary drivers to the installer, and it turns out there is Adding support for USB 3. USB 3. 0 flash driveThe entire install takes about 5 minutes with one of those. Step by Step Walk Through. Get the right USB 3. Drivers. For your installer to work with your computer, make sure you grab the proper USB 3. My motherboard used Intel USB 3. I downloaded the latest version from Intels site. Look up your Motherboards drivers and see which ones you need. For convenience, Ive added the latest drivers as of the time of writing for the most common USB 3. If you are unsure which drivers you need or have multiple computers, you can grab all of them. Extract the Drivers. Once you download the drivers, we will need to make a folder for the drivers we want to slipstream into our installation media. For the purpose of this example lets just call it USB3 Fix. Inside that folder create two separate folders USB3 and mount. Now extract all the drivers into that USB3 folder. Get the boot. wim and install. Thanks for all the comments pointing out that you also need to update the install. Next, we need to get the files we need to installadd the drivers on. Usb Controller Driver For Windows 7 64 Bit Lenovo' title='Usb Controller Driver For Windows 7 64 Bit Lenovo' />Open up your USB thumb drive that has your Windows 7 image on it and navigate to the Sources folder. Move the boot. wim file and install. Advertising Agency Website Templates. USB3 Fix folder we created earlier. Update the boot. Files. Open up your cmd shell as an administrator. Click Start on Windows 7, or Windows Key Q on Windows 8, type in cmd and then right click on the cmd application and choose Run as Administrator. Once open, navigate to the USB3Fix folder in the cmd shell, and type in the following commands in this order to update the boot. It should look something like this. Next, do the same thing to the install. This file has a couple of different index values depending on what type of Windows you are installing. You can list all the indexes and their contents by typing in. Get Wim. Info Wim. File install. wim. Get Wim. InfoWim. File install. wim. It will give you the output of the different installers and their indexes If you want to update all of them you will have to repeat the below process for the indexes you want to update. For me, Im just installing Windows 7 Professional, so Im only going to update that one. If you are encountering dism errors when trying to run the above commands make sure that the wim files unmounted successfully by running the following command. After that command finishes, try mounting the wim that was giving you errors again and adding the drivers. Thanks to Jason for pointing out the dism cleanup wim command. For more information about troubleshooting wim mounting see this excellent post. Replace the boot. Now youre done Simply place the modified boot. Win 7 iso bootable USB thumb drive and everything should work as expected Hope this saves people the 3. Thanks go to Rakeesh, who originally posted this workaround at forums. Is a Computer Scientist and Japanese scholar who enjoys programming, video games, and living life. He currently works at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and does freelance programming and translation work on the side. Latest posts by Travis Payton see allRelated. USB port actually work at the moment I have a few USB3 ports on my PC that needed the renesas softwaredrivers in windows 7. I did a clean install of 8. DriverTuner was created to save your time resolving driver problems by providing you with a single, automatic tool. BIOS. HP Notebook System BIOS Update F. Diagnostic Tools. HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI Support Environment 4.