The above sounds very simple, but I think this is because the Win 7 ISO I used had been modified to include USB 3.0 and NVME SSD support. I just force restarted the computer and it went straight to the desktop. Loading this driver seemed to fix this issue.įinally, I found the installation hung at the 'finalizing the installation' step. I found that the setup allowed you to install Windows without loading this driver, but at the first reboot, I got a bluescreen. At the point where you select the drive to install to, I clicked ‘load driver’ and selected the appropriate NVME driver from above. I then booted from the USB and proceeded as normal. In the BIOS, I disabled secure boot and set Startup -> UEFI/Legacy Boot to ‘UEFI only w/ CSM support’ enabled. I then copied over the NVME SSD drivers to the root of the USB drive. Using Rufus ( ) and my USB 3.0 drive, I formatted it as NTFS (as the image was too big for FAT32) and selected GPT partition scheme for UEFI. I settled on using Generation2’s Win 7 ISO titled ‘Windows 7 SP1 X64 8 in1 ESD en-US March 2016-Generation2’: The following is the setup that worked for me. What options to select when creating the USB using Rufus Suffice it to say, I was able to finally install Win 7 successfully. There’s some good resources out there, and I'm sure I'll have some of the details wrong here, but wanted to share my findings specific to the T460s in case it helps anyone - I know enough to tinker and be dangerous, but I am far from an expert on these matters. This is my first new laptop in a few years, so had to educate myself on UEFI vs BIOS, MBR vs GPT partition schemes, and the fact that Win 7 may not have native USB 3.0 or NVME SSD support during install. I've spent the last few days trying to install a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate build on my T460s.
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