I have the following (brand new): GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXi7-4770R WD Blue WD10JPVX 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5' Hard Drive G.SKILL 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 RAM Machine does not have an optical drive, so I created.iso from Windows 7 OS installation dvd. Next I used Windows 7 usb/dvd burner, which supposedly made the usb drive bootable with the iso. Machine did not boot from two different usb sticks and an external HD like this.

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I ran cmd as administrator and did DISKPART and BOOTSECT.EXE to make a bootable usb another way. Machine went straight into BIOS. It recognized the usb stick, but went into BIOS still. I connected the machine to a dvd drive via a SATA to USB adaptor. The dvd 'loads files' but then freezes on the windows logo page that says 'Starting Windows.' It freezes like that for well over a half hour. I connected the HD to another machine with a dvd drive.

Windows 7 installs, but because of the other machine's USB port issues, it doesn't get past the 'Choose Language' menu. I put the HD back with the Gigabyte Brix Pro, hoping it would reload to the Language menu. Nope, straight into BIOS. Changed BIOS from ACHI to IDE. Changed it back. At my wit's end.

Anyone have any suggestions or see any flaws? Thank you for the replies. Left it 'thinking' at the logo Starting Windows screen overnight and nothing happened. Wrench97: It looks like they are all USB 3.0 ports. When the other machine dvd drive was connected I put the drivers disk that came with the machine in the dvd(when connected previou cable. It went straight to BIOS, which made sense I guess. Tyree and Bassfisher: My current set up at the moment is the Brix connected via USB to SATA cable to other machine's internal dvd drive (with its own power source).

Per your suggestion that the Win7 disk might be the issue, I tried an XP installation disk. The machine didn't even recognize it as bootable and went straight to BIOS.

I switched from IDE to ACHI and back again. Did you set the bios to boot from the usb drive? Did you try the usb drive in another pc?

Iv'e tried the ms tool for usb flash drive installation but I found that doing it manually worked the best for me. Before I post the link on how to do this make sure to test the drive in another pc to see if it loads. If I'm right you can also hit f10 during boot to access the boot menu, your flash drive should be listed on the bottom of the drive list. Make sure you hit the button when you see the spash screen, here is the instructions to make a win 7 bootable flash drive manually. My boot priority is set to the USB drive. The machine does not have an optical drive, and because there is no OS on the HD that is the only option for it.

F12 recognizes the USB stick when it is plugged in, but even after selecting the option it will go back to BIOS. I have also run MobaLiveUSB as an administrator in the USB stick to check if it is bootable. The usb boots in the virtual image, but then asks for an installation cd. I don't know if that means there is an issue with the files or just doing that because it is a virtual image. I am beginning to suspect it must be something to do with the 3.0 USB ports.

They are all 3.0. No idea how I am supposed to install the drivers to make the 3.0 USB ports work without an OS or optical drive to install the OS.

Ezp2010 soft na russkom. Hard to say why it wouldn't recognize the optical drive, it could be a setting in bios for the usb ports. It might be a legacy option or something else that isn't enabled in bios, what is the make and model of the pc? If you remake the usb drive with the link I posted you can add the driver files to the usb flash drive as long as you have enough room and the drive will boot. Iv'e had to do it a few times when fixing pc's for people and Iv'e even had to delete the install files and recopy them to the flash drive and it still booted from the flash drive.

Do you have a pic or link to the sata to usb adaptor? I'd like to see what you are using. Search this Thread Similar Threads Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post We couldn't install Windows in the location you chose.