Lenovo Thinkpad 11e Windows 7 Install issue

[superatticman]

Hi All

 

Has anyone tried to install Win7 on a Thinkpad 11e?

 

Getting a message shortly before the option of install location suggesting that I need to add a driver to continue. Reminiscent of the 'F6 setup' in Win NT/2000/XP.

 

Short of staff and time this week so not had much time to investigate this.

 

Any ideas? BIOS setting maybe?

 

Regards

[Steve21]

What's the message? Could be secureboot etc related if Win8, could be SSD drivers etc etc.

 

Steve

[Passat1983ICTech]

have you got the drive set to sata I think its that

[superatticman]

Hi All

 

Managed to finally get an hour or so to resolve.

 

Had to:

 

Ensure both EUFI and Legacy boot was enabled

Secureboot turned off

 

And most importantly considering I was installing W7 from USB:

 

Disable USB 3.0 mode in the BIOS

 

This then allows you to install windows 7 (of which I presume natively does not support USB3)

 

Handy bit of advice there if anyone else comes across this.

[Arthur]

and most importantly considering I was installing W7 from USB:

 

Disable USB 3.0 mode in the BIOS

Alternatively just connect the USB 3.0 flash drive to the USB 2.0 port. No drivers required.

[mthomas08]

Hi All

 

Managed to finally get an hour or so to resolve.

 

Had to:

 

Ensure both EUFI and Legacy boot was enabled

Secureboot turned off

 

And most importantly considering I was installing W7 from USB:

 

Disable USB 3.0 mode in the BIOS

 

This then allows you to install windows 7 (of which I presume natively does not support USB3)

 

Handy bit of advice there if anyone else comes across this.

 

I was a bit late catching your post to reply but yes this works. We have one that we plan on using to image come next week and send that off to the company to pre-built the units.