
PRIOR TO STARTING ANY OF THE BELOW OPTIONS MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THESE STEPS ON A MACHINE WITH NO ANTIVIRUS INSTALLED.Īnitvirus programs have been found to interfere with the creation of the image causing it to fail at various stages of install.įor a smooth installation, the Intel USB 3.0 driver needs to be slipstreamed into both the "install.wim" and the "boot.wim" of the Windows 2008 R2 w/SP1 media.Įach ".wim" file has more than 1 index, so you need to inject the Intel USB 3.0 drivers into all of the applicable indexes of each ".wim" file. If this solution is not possible the alternative is to inject the USB 3.0 driver into the installation media. If possible the most convenient solution is to install Windows 2012 which natively contains the USB 3.0 driver and there will be no issue during installation.

With USB 3.0 using the default media, installation will get stuck at the following stage without keyboard and mouse functionality (Figure 2):įigure 2: Stopped Installation in the setup screen Warning: This switch does not exist on lower models (R/T 330, 230, 130, 30), as the hardware is only USB 3.0
