Samsung 1TB NVMe 960 EVO - Windows 7 64bit - ASUS x99-E WS/USB 3.1 Motherboard

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#243919 9-Jan-2019 01:56

Hi Party People,

Trying to get my new system up and running for sometime now...

SOFTWARE - Windows 7 64bit

HARDWARE - Samsung 1TB NVMe 960 EVO

HARDWARE - ASUS x99-E WS/USB 3.1 Motherboard

I know Windows 7 doesn't come with native nVME Drivers, and believe me I've been trying every trick I can find to get up and running, I can get windows installed however crashes into BSOD, when booting into safe mode with command prompt it hangs on "disk.sys" which would be the missing native NVMe drivers issues I'm guessing from everything I've been reading... (the nvme drivers being to bootup before GUI is my understanding)

Mickysoft don't seem to helpful in being able to download the hotfixes to insert into a windows USB Boot Drive anymore (link doesn't work/missing)

Has *ANYONE* got any ideas/solutions?!?!

I'm rather at my wits end here, I'm a computer tech myself, and this is driving me nutty now...

Any tips or tricks from like minded people would be most welcome, the chipset is x99 also if that helps...

Thanks for reading,

Cheers!

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#2156719 9-Jan-2019 02:42

I get people are massive fans of W7, much like with XP. But much like what happened with XP, Windows 7 is coming up end of life this time next year.

So unless there is some sort of massive software incompatibility or you're air gapping your machine, it's probably time to consider 8.1 or 10.

Webwizard

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#2156720 9-Jan-2019 02:52

You WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT !!!!

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#2156723 9-Jan-2019 06:28

as mentioned above why do you need windows 7?

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#2156726 9-Jan-2019 07:08

Did you put the driver on a USB stick and then load the driver via the windows install thing just before you format and install?

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#2156796 9-Jan-2019 09:44

There's 3 things you need to do

1) DISM in the NVMe Hotfix into your Install.wim because the OS is so old NVMe wasn't a thing when the latest Service Pack was created.

2) DISM in the Samsung NVMe driver for the same reason as above.

3) Format your NVMe drive & Install a OS that isn't 10 years old.

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#2156885 9-Jan-2019 10:56

Test a Windows 10 install on the hardware. If it works, you have a solution even if it's not one you are a fan of.

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