I used the image: en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_圆4_dvd_u_676939Ģ. Download or have your Windows 7 ISO image at hand.

If you don’t have another computer at hand, you could even create this image at work or while visiting a friend. The USB stick should have 4 gigabytes or more space and should be formatted and empty when you start. You will need another computer that is running Windows 7 or 8 in order to prepare the USB stick that you will use for installing Windows 7.

The instruction below has been adapted to work with the NUC5CPYH / NUC5PPYH though. Credit goes to Travis Payton from Code A Bitwiser blog, where I read about this first. Intel has already published an instruction on how to do this, but I found it rather confusing. Below I’ll explain how to avoid these pitfalls and install Windows 7 on NUC5CPYH / NUC5PPYH. Without adding the USB 3.0 drivers into the installation image your keyboard and mouse will not work during the Windows 7 installation. Without correct BIOS settings Windows 7 installation will give you blue screen right at the beginning. Basically it will do the same thing that is described below, so if you want to be in control of what exactly happens you can also follow the below instructions. This will help you skip steps 5-22 of the instruction below. Unfortunately the NUC does have only USB 3.0 ports, so something must be done (there are internal USB 2.0 ports, but these are rather inconvenient to use) as the only way you could control your NUC is through the USB ports.ĮDIT: Intel has now released a Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility v3 that will modify your Windows 7 installation USB stick automatically. Specifically it is lacking USB 3.0 support. The reason is that Windows 7 starts to be rather old already and the basic installation does not support more modern hardware. Installing Windows 7 on the NUC5CPYH or NUC5PPYH (Braswell NUC) is a bit tricky. The following instruction tells you how to install Windows 7 on a Braswell or Skylake NUC.

Usb 3.0 creator utility windows 7