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

[FRade]

Ok, so I was as stupid to buy the 512 GB version. And, as every Windows version after 7 was crap and I like playing games, I expected to be able to install Windows 7 on this.

How hard can it be? After all, I'm a computer programmer.

Well, VERY HARD. You have to follow a long list of steps that are definitely not doable for most people. And I couldn't get them to work, either. It simply doesn't work, or at least not with my ISO and computer. While the BIOS shows the SSD being active.

Yes, I understand that Microsoft sees it as a good reason to force you to upgrade to their newest crap.

It seems Intel isn't interested in making it work, either. That's what they said in this thread as well.

So, save yourself the frustration and don't buy this.

[KOtte]

I just wanted to add my 2 cents on this matter, because I spent about 6 hours trying to get 7 installed on a 512G 600p. The furthest I got was the installer starting, I could load the RST drivers, see the drive, Windows would start installing. Then after the first reboot, it would sit at 'Starting Windows' and never progress any further.

I was following the instructions in http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/solid-state-drives/Intel_6_Series_PCIeNVMe_... http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/solid-state-drives/Intel_6_Series_PCIeNVMe_... and not the ones Microsoft have.

I also had to merge in the USB3 drivers otherwise the keyboard and mouse won't work.

Another thing I do want to note to others having a problem; make sure your BIOS is configured for RST/raid, even if you only have one SSD. Until I did this, even loading the driver yielded no drive visible.

Ultimately I gave up and used Windows 10. This is just a dumb file server, but that's specifically why I just wanted Windows 7 on it.

I'm using a AsRock Z270M PRO4 board.

Kiran

[VRynk]

Hi,

Maybe my experience will help in that case.

What I did first, I connected to B250 MB regular SATA HDD (not M.2) and installed Windows 7 without any problems

Then I installed Microsoft https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3087873 hotfix 3087873 to add support for NVME drivers. At this point M.2 600P drive was not connected yet.

After shut down, I plugged M.2 600P drive (the first regular HDD still connected), and run bootable clone disk software (I used Ghost,but there is many others like Acronis etc).

So, I cloned windows 7 installation from regular SATA to M.2 drive.

Then, when finished, shut down, unplug the regular drive, and DONE!

Now Windows 7 is working on M.2 drive.

[idata]

Hi BigJoker,

Thanks for your feedback, we hope this can help other users.Regards,Nestor C