HowTo get Win7 installed onto my ASUS E510M Laptop?

Operating Systems Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008
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Thanks for the requested details.
Additional questions:

  1. Did you use an original (untouched) Win7 ISO file as source?
  2. Which specific modifications of the ISO file did you do?
  3. Which storage driver(s) did you integrate besides the MS NVMe Hofixes (e.g. WD NVMe driver)?
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  1. Yes, i have used an original windows 7 iso, though it did have SP1 by default
  2. Only modified parts were the updates and the driver repeated throughout every .wim file
  3. Integrated a third party WD NVMe driver which was loaded prior to disk.sys succesfully but same result and it got stuck on disk.sys
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As I already have written, the WD NVMe driver doesn’t support Win7.
You should not use a boot.wim or install.wim, where a not matching storage driver has been integrated.
I recommend to repeat the NTLite procedure from scratch by using the original Win7 SP1 ISO file as source and to integrate just the MS NVMe Hotfixes.
Good luck!

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Back to this, sorry for the latency. I first redownloaded a fresh ISO just in case, integrated the same hotfixes from earlier and nothing else, which lead to the same outcome of it hanging on disk.sys. Also tried the new ISO on my sata drive.

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Try this driver. I just found it.
Good luck!
Driver NVME

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Ive since tried integrating that driver, while also installing on another old HDD i found, same problem of it getting stuck on disk.sys

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@lordershocker
The reason for your troubles is definitely not the MS in-box disk management driver named disk.sys.
Please check the integrity of all connected disk drives and the in-use ISO file.
By the way: What happens, if you try to install any Windows OS by booting off an original (untouched) OS Image? Hangs the Setup still on “disk.sys”?

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I ran chkdsk on all my drives, didnt come back with anything. As for your other question, i recently got a dualboot with 8.1 going without touching the iso, booted into the setup fine and installed fine.

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Can you install windows via Acronis image file? I have this file.

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Geez, 7 GB? I have pretty crappy internet so ill update you in a while

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@lordershocker
Did you integrate the MS NVMe Hotfixes into both WIM files (boot.wim and install.wim)? That is absolutely necessary.
Another idea: Integrate the “generic 64bit Phison NVMe driver v1.5.0.0 WHQL for Win7 x64” into both WIM files and nothing else! You can find download links to this driver within the start post of >this< thread.

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Nothing worked for my 12th gen i9, except Geazaa’s tib file, I’m in shock after a year and a half of failure.

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@Scruffers
Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
What has been your problem while trying to get Win7 x64 installed onto your specific NVMe SSD (manufacturer/model?)?

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Mostly acpi block, I’m right now giddy as a drunken man, it on there, albeit handycapped. Zephyrus m16

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@Scruffers
The ACPI.SYS problem of modern systems at the beginning of the Win7 installation is well-known and can be solved by a modded driver version. This thread is about a previously unknown problem with Win7’s Disk Management driver named DISK.SYS.

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just clarifying that i have been NOT able to boot off a USB this entire time, ive instead been manually deploying the windows image, which leads to me only using install.wim and nothing else.

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i just used that tib file with acronis, and installed it on my external hdd. Its weridly causing strange behavior. First it refuses to boot from anything except directly off the bios, and sometimes it doesnt even show up in the bios. The one time it did, it started booting and not even 3 seconds in i hear the drive click and turn off. Maybe the drive is problematic?

Edit: just ran chkdsk on the drive, nothing out of the ordinary. im pretty tempted to just make the drive a VHD and test it in a VM

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@lordershocker
Your chosen thread title is absolutely misleading, because the MS in-box driver named disk.sys has nothing to do with your problem. The Win7 installation fails, because its Disk Management doesn’t have or doesn’t find a suitable driver for your USB connected device. That is why the installation procedure stops after having loaded the driver named disk.sys.
If your laptop cannot boot off any USB Flash drive (I guess, that the Win7 Setup doesn’t even detect it due to a missing or not matching USB 3.x driver), it is not easy to get Win7 installed at all.
Who is the manufacturer of your notebook and which name has the model?
Which OS has been natively installed?
Why do you want to get Win7 installed onto a quite modern laptop, whose hardware is natively not supported by the old OS?

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I didnt know the actual problem initially, can the title be changed? Im kinda new to this forum. If it doesnt detect drivers for USB devices, cant i just install to my internal NVMe like i was doing a while ago and disconnect everything and try again? And uhh yeah my laptop can boot from USB drives thats not a problem.
As for your questions:
My laptop is an ASUS E510MA
Currently Windows 11 and 8.1 are installed fine
Ive been trying for almost 2 years, i really dont know what my initial intent was

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I have done it for you.
As the thread opener you can determine the title and change it at any time by editing the first post.

To be able to get Win7 x64 installed onto your laptop in EFI mode you may need at least 2 moddded drivers (for ACPI and USB 3.x). I cannot help you, because I generally do not modify the hex code of any real driver (= *.SYS file).