Installing Windows 10 on new Z170 Chipset

I see a lot of people asking how to install Windows 7, so I wanted to share my steps here. Credit goes to a reddit user I got it from.


I have a fix for you that uses a secondary computer which you would need to copy over drivers ect anyway right?

My Build is a Gigabyte z170 Gaming 7 Mobo with i7-6700K CPU

*1. Install your SATA HD or SSD in another computer, (old rig perhaps?)

*2. On this other computer, boot from your WIN7 Installer USB or CD. (90% of the time will recognize the disk to install windows)

*3. Begin your Windows Install.

*4. Only run the first portion of your Windows 7 install, the portion while you are booted from the USB.

*5. Prevent the computer from rebooting, soon as it shuts down cut power.

*6. Remove Sata drive from the old PC and Install it in your z170 system.

*7. Boot up your New z170 system selecting the Drive you just set up if you have multiple installed, the drive is primed to accept whatever system it boots into and the z170 chipset/win7 will auto-update registry to match.

Viala! The z170 chipset recognizes all the drives without issue in the bios and will even try to boot from them, its the win7 installer that doesn't recognize the drives through the z170 system. I have done this on 4 z170 systems now and it works every time.

 

Or you could just slipstream the Intel USB 3.0 and 3.1 XHCI drivers into boot.wim and install.wim

 

I've read about this here but I tried doing that for several hours without success, but hey if it works for others, maybe I did something wrong.

 

Good info! There have been a lot of questions about w7 on z170 so i'm sure every way helps