600p driver For windows 7 Preinstall

[idata]

I have been struggling for 3 days to install windows 7 on to a new Intel 60oP M.2 drive.

All the NVMe drivers that I have been sent or found do not recognise the drive

I have tried slip streaming and loading the drivers during install and they all fail to find the drive

I have tried MS standard NVMe express drivers as per this page https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 which is also failing

To test that the SSD is in fact working in the board I installed windows 10 pro successfully and updated and surfed the net fine

So I need to find a proper driver.

Thanks

[idata]

Hello NotAmused2016,

Unfortunately this is a common issue customer are facing when installing Windows 7* on these new drives. The main reason behind it is that these drives use the inbox drivers built into the operating system, since Microsoft* now provides native support for NVMe* drives on Windows* 7, 8.1, and 10. That being said, NVMe drives where not natively supported by Windows 7* originally, this support was added later via a Windows® update. If you read the Microsoft article that you've provided us, it not only provides the hotfix to add these support to an OS, which is meant for customers who have the OS already installed and are simply adding an NVMe* drive as a secondary or storage unit. It also provides a method for you to perform a clean installation using an NVMe* drive as the primary SSD. To actually install the OS on this drive, it gets slightly more technical, and as you would actually need to add the hotfix to the Windows* image itself before attempting the installation. Microsoft® does not seem to provide a standalone driver. The Microsoft KB article 2990941 you mentioned provides two methods to perform these actions. One requires that you insert the hotfixes and drivers to the boot.wim, then update the sources folder by running Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) commands. The second method requires you to install the OS on a SATA drive then transfer the generalized image to the Intel® SSD 600p/6000p.We can suggest that you try to apply the hotfix from Microsoft* on the original HDD and then try to clone this installation to your SSD, this may eventually works, so please let us know the outcome.Regards,NC

[idata]

Hi,

After trying gigabytes own winimage update software which appeared to fail to update boot.wim and install.wim on monday I tried it again wednesday night and it worked (picnic or pebkac possibly)

issue closed

[idata]

Hello NotAmused2016,

We are glad to know that you were able to successfully install Windows 7* on your new drive. By any chance do you know what happened before?It will be important for other users to know which steps you followed to successfully accomplish the installation.Regards,NC

[THent1]

Hello,

FYI

I successfully installed Windows 7 on a 600p SSD following the instructions of Method 1 from https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 .

Because there is no driver for this SSD available, you can delete the driver related command lines.

Best Regards,

Timo