I want to do one step better: integrate ALL the drivers for that machine into my installation USB stick! Get the filesįirst off, head over to Dell Command for Drivers to read more information. One solution is to install a generic driver pack from Intel for these three types. If you are installing on these new devices, which only support USB3, then you need those drivers as well! Finally, in the laptops, they are not always using 2.5” SATA hard drives, so you need a driver for that now!

The obvious answer is to use the F6-style drivers for the SATA controller, but that’s not enough. It makes the system fast, even without using much power, but it causes an issue if a SysAdmin needs to install Windows 7 from their installation media - most notably, the USB drive is not available, and neither is the hard drive from the Windows 7 WinPE environment. Recently, I’ve been seeing posts about the new Skylake-based Intel processors that Dell is using in their Precision, Optiplex and Latitude lines of products.

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