Solved Nvme Driver

[SIW2]

Are you using the nvme as boot disk?

Forum - [OFFER] Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3 fixed BIOS 9903, modded with NVMe + others

OR simpler way:

Forum - [Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method)

 

[3ksim]

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Wow, the only helpful one-click no-fuss solution on the whole earth. Not even the manufacturers and MS had the sense to make this.

YOU ARE THE MAN SIW2

 

[SIW2]

 

[file3456]

Yes. I suspect they are trying to make things awkward for win 7 users - with the intention of pushing them onto win10.

Isn't that something. Just like how certain CPUs can only be used in Win 10. I call BS on that. Sure, there might be OS only capabilities for that CPU and Windows 10, but by in large, many people are using the latest Ryzen CPUs and Intel CPUs in Windows 7 without ill recourse.

 

[martincima]

Are you using the nvme as boot disk?

Forum - [OFFER] Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3 fixed BIOS 9903, modded with NVMe + others

OR simpler way:

Forum - [Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method)

I have flashed the mentioned Bios 9903, but windows 7 bootloader doesn't seem to be having NVMe drivers. I've just cloned my classical disk using gparted to NVMe and setup NVMe (PATA:ss) device as first boot option. However

Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

was the result. I had to put back the classical drive and get back to booting from it for now.

I am not sure whether to install clover bootmanager or to search for some tutorial how to "repair" the bootloader using enhanced installation CD (Win 7 instllation iso with NVMe drivers) so it can deal with new type of drive.

 

[rhartemink]

after searching the internet for a solution about a ssd M.2 in windows 7 i found this website ,

i downloaded the files , but for some reason that i do not get the installation say's that this is not this pc .
what am i doing wrong here ?
The ssd is a Samsung 980 1 Tb on an Asus prime B350 board with a Ryzen 7 1700 . windows 7 SP1

at this moment de SSD is not visible in windows and is not yet the boot drive , after a ghost clone , this ends with a bsod .

 

[gbti]

Hello everyone. Does anyone have the Intel 670p series driver for win7?
Thank you in advance

 

[dmdilks]

What mother board you putting this on?

 

[SIW2]

I dont think there is a specific win7 driver for that disk I can suggest these:

win7x64-IRST_NVMEcontrollers.zip

 

[gbti]

I have an HP Envy laptop 15t-es100 and for some reason i cannot find the appropriate driver for the installation. When i un-hide the compatible drivers during the installation i can see at the description "series 4,5,7,8" and the "660p" but no drivers for the 670p intel nvme.

 

[SIW2]

Why do you need specific drivers ?

 

[gbti]

Installation procedure is not able to detect my intel nvme drive. I've downloaded every possible driver i could find online. I can install win10 and win11 but not win7.

 

[SIW2]

did you try the drivers I uploaded in my previous post?

they include the last intel irst as well as msnvme and phison ( which work for all known nvme disks )

integrate them into boot.wim, winre.wim and install.wim

it is easier if you use this which will include those automatically for you

Update your Win 7 installation media

if it is amd you could try canonkong's ryzen mainboard drivers

 

[WildWilly]

I haven't even bought my SSD yet but I knew I would need drivers. Like everybody else, I landed here:

Update to add native driver support in NVM Express in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - Microsoft Support

Where they no longer provide the hotfix. My interpretation of what it says on that page is that they will give you the hotfix if you call them & pay them for it. Negatory.

In any case, I got the Nvme-Win7x64.zip since I'm running W7 64-bit. I installed the Windows6.1-KB2990941-v3-x64.msu no problem. Rebooted. Went to install Windows6.1-KB3087873-v2-x64.msu & it said it didn't apply to my computer. Reading between the lines of something you said above, I'm guessing that if you have SP1 installed, you needn't worry about this failure to install. Yes? No?

I see you have something for USB 3. I have USB 3 ports on this machine & I have used devices plugged into those ports. Now I'm wondering if I'm really getting USB 3 performance out of them. How would I tell? Maybe I'll just get that thing & try to install whatever it is. I've already booted today. My habit is to go at least a few weeks if not months between reboots. I hope you're not going to make me reboot AGAIN. Such a hardship . . .

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Well, I did get your USB 3 package & looked inside it. That gave me the ID kb2864202. Searching the MS web site landed me here:

MS13-081: Description of the security update for USB drivers: October 8, 2013 - Microsoft Support

According to the information on that page & a couple of dir /s commands on my boot partition, I already have this particular fix on my system. I'm sure I installed it years ago when I was still letting Windows Update run all the time. I of course shut that off when MS decided to yank the rug out from under our feet & take W7 out of support. OK. That package wasn't what I thought it was. It is not something that adds USB 3 support to W7 the way your NVME package adds NVME support to the system. It's just a security update & it seems I already have it.

In a word, never mind.

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Oh. And I'll be sure to come back here & give an update once I actually own an SSD & have tried to make it my new boot drive.

 

[dmdilks]

Installation procedure is not able to detect my intel nvme drive. I've downloaded every possible driver i could find online. I can install win10 and win11 but not win7.

Because like newer Motherboards and Laptops. You can't install Windows 7! "Sorry"

Yes you can, but I had a Dell Laptop I could install windows 7 on. But there were No Drivers.

Plus If you can get Windows 7 on it you have to activated it. They activation server is shut down and don't know even if you can still call it in.

 

[WildWilly]

SIW2, I downloaded the IRST package you included in your earlier post. I see 4 directories. I'm not entirely sure what each directory is applicable to. I do not see any kind of installation executable. There are only 2 .exe files in the whole package that I can see & I'm not going to try executing them on spec without knowing what they might do. And I do not know how to, to use your words, "integrate them into" a WIM. Please offer a little more detail.

 

[SIW2]

There are no excutable files in there .

:ar: Dism++ add updates and drivers to a wim

 

[WildWilly]

I believe I already have the USB 3 update installed on my system. As for DISM, I already have these on my system:

Directory of C:\Windows\System32

01/08/2021 20:51 <DIR> Dism
01/08/2021 20:48 274,944 Dism.exe

Directory of C:\Windows\SysWOW64

01/08/2021 20:51 <DIR> Dism
01/08/2021 20:48 205,312 Dism.exe

Is either of these acceptable? Or should I really use the one you are providing?

Other than that, you are most helpful. I will let you know how it goes with modifying my WIM files.

 

[SIW2]

use dism++ to mount the wim and install the drivers as illustrated in the screenshots.

you can point it at the extracted zip folder and it will recurse and add the irst and nvme drivers

I always integrate the sha2 update as well because some drivers expect it.

windows6.1-kb4474419-v3-x64.msu

https://catalog.s.download.windowsu..._b5614c6cea5cb4e198717789633dca16308ef79c.msu

 

[Furball Zen]

Yes I realize this is a year old... I have a Win 7 machine that went down and will not boot to BIOS or anything, but will turn on. So I got a new laptop with 11 on it with the intent to roll back to 10. However, I want to clone my Win 7 disk and upgrade that install to 10 for the laptop. Im writing on a ThinkPad Yoga 12 that I managed to get 7 SP1 on. If I apply the hotfix after the cloning to this Thinkpad, and then to the new one, will that work? I know its a lot of work, but I don't want to mess up the older 7 install at all, so im not putting that disk into anything.