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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    For me, a reinstall would take far, far longer than 10 minutes. I have dozens of applications that I've been using for years, each has its settings tuned, perfectly how I like them. I have the windows environment itself modified with countless tweaks and regedits I've used over the past few...
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    Unfortunately it doesn't look like DOS will recognize a NTFS filesystem without extensive modifcations.
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    Well unfortunately the laptop is actually a Surface Pro 3, so no way to switch drives (without warranty invalidation). But I think that a bootable USB drive might work, I suspect the BIOS might recognize a USB boot drive (if not then Gigabyte has failed me badly). I think Linux would probably be...
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    I am curious why you say it should be done? I find reinstalling the OS to be a major PITA unless truly necessary. It's not the actually installation of windows (or linux), but the reinstalling of every program, re-customizing all settings, etc. I think when you plan to upgrade your OS, a fresh...
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    It will I imagine, I just don't own one. I had an old IDE DVD burner with the last mobo, but this new one doesn't have an IDE connector. I actually ordered a SATA optical drive on Amazon a couple hours ago, but will take a couple days. If possible I'd like to be able to use my desktop before then.
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    That's a good idea, unfortunately I don't have a SATA drive enclosure handy (I actually thought I did own one at one point, but now can't find it for the life of me). We might have one sitting around at work I could borrow, I'll try to find one tomorrow. As to Gigabyte, its actually kind of...
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    New Gigabyte motherboard, can't load drivers, USB sticks not recognized in windows

    I just bought and installed a new Gigabyte Gaming 3 with an i5-6600K. I was coming from an AMD board/CPU so I did a sysprep in my Windows 7 install to clear out drivers right before installing the board. Windows 7 booted right up without needing a fresh install (thank goodness). A couple drivers...
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