@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.
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
@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?
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
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).
Ill just try searching for USB 3.0 and ACPI drivers, will update if i find any that work