As the comments said, USB 3 drivers are not something that Windows supports natively.
Your main question came about the speed - there will be no difference unless your USB memory stick is USB 3 compatible.
This gets quite advanced, I am assuming you have a working knowledge of the command prompt. I would recommend you add the various Microsoft directories to your path, or run the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt
instead of the standard one. If I loose you at any point, please write in comments and I will be happy to help.
What I recommend you do is download the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and download your USB drivers.
Once downloaded, load the Deployment Workbench
and load the WAIK
/ Windows Automated Installation Kit
.
Once this is downloaded, you can use the "copype" command to copy the required Windows PE files to a staging folder. Assuming you wanted c:\win_pe_32
you would use:
copype.cmd x86 c:\win_pe_32
For 64 bit use:
copype.cmd x64 c:\win_pe_64
(I won't give two versions from now on, simply use common sense and replace 64 with 32!)
This will basically copy the required Windows PE files to the folder above.
Next, we need to mount the boot.wim
file (The part that actually loads Windows PE). Do this with the ImageX command:
imagex /mountrw c:\win_pe_32\winpe.wim 1 c:\win_pe_32\mount
This will mount the Wim
file to the \mount
directory.
To load the driver, have the path to the .inf
file and run:
peimg /inf=<path> c:\win_pe_32\mount\Windows
If you explore this folder, you can add additional files if you wish. Personally, I include ImageX so it is available from Windows PE.
Now commit the changes by typing:
imagex /unmount c:\win_pe_32\mount /commit
Now you simply overwrite the default boot.wim
file with the winpe.wim
you just changed.
copy c:\win_pe_32 c:\win_pe_32\iso\sources\boot.wim
Lastly, we use the Microsoft Mastering tool with the following command:
oscdimg -n -bc:\win_pe_32\etfsboot.com c:\win_pe_32\iso c:\win_pe_32\winpe_32.iso
and congratulations! You now have a new bootable Windows PE iso
file with the drivers included.
You can burn this to disk, and hopefully, everything should work - as long as the driver is compatible with Windows PE!
1You mean you can't get to the installer when using USB 3.0 because the disk is not recognized? – slhck – 2011-05-04T07:24:09.020
The computer finds the USB memory in USB3 but once I boot from it the computer complains that it's not bootable (probably because there's no drivers). However it works using the same memory in USB 2. – Hultner – 2011-05-04T08:28:00.967
3This is to be expected. USB 3 is not considered part of the basic driver set so Windows 7 needs to fetch it. Why don't you just install it from USB 2? – Blomkvist – 2011-05-04T11:27:09.223
Well the whole point was that I wanted to see how long time it took (2 minutes by the way). And I know USB 3 isn't I just though that I could maybe in someway put the driver somewhere on the intall medium so that it would recognise it without loading the driver from another USB Memory. – Hultner – 2011-05-05T06:14:56.563
3Sounds to me like you might need to slipstream the drivers into the install, like you would for a RAID controller or such on earlier systems. – Iszi – 2011-05-06T14:20:16.957
Yeah that's kinda what I want to do but I don't know what's the best way to do that with the Windows 7 installer? – Hultner – 2011-05-06T18:37:16.290
You might post the exact PC model you are trying to install on, so we can look for a driver for you. – Moab – 2011-06-21T15:00:26.017