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December 18th, 2020 13:00
Latitude E5570 - Installing drivers when installing Windows 7
How to install Windows 7 (32/64 bits) on a DELL Latitude E5570 from a USB flash drive, so that the disk has MBR (not GPT)?
One of the first screens says that a required CD/DVD device driver is missing.
There is no CD/DVD in the laptop.
I downloaded the "Intel Rapid Storage Technology F6" drivers on a pendrive. I put this flash drive in my laptop, but the laptop can't see it.
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Maciej
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None of the Microsoft-released Windows 7 media will install on this system, which is the very last one that has any Windows 7 support. You will need to create a customized Windows 7 install (either on a flash drive or written to a DVD) to do the installation, or use the ISO that you can download for your system using its service tag (assuming it originally shipped with 7). The catch for the last part may be that Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft (and by extension, Dell).
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000155194/dell-systems-with-the-intel-skylake-or-braswell-chipset-lack-usb-2-0-support-and-will-not-boot-to-dell-windows-7-media
You may have to build the media yourself -- details here:
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000112190/how-to-install-windows-7-on-systems-with-skylake-chipset
Unless you are absolutely in need of Windows 7 (which has seen no security updates in a year now), Windows 10 is a far better idea.