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]

I'm hoping Intel will release some urgently needed software to make this problem go away. The convoluted processes suggested- asking regular consumers to modify the contents of the Windows 7 ISO- seems highly unreasonable. Can you please provide either an updated iso with the required drivers in it, or give us a simple driver file to make the preinstall process possible?

This OS is not dead- it's a stable alternative to the intrusive and unstable Windows 10. Please respect your users with a practical and readily accessible solution.

[idata]

Hello VeryAnnoyedCustomer,

Thanks for sharing your feedback, this is very valuable and we will send it to the proper team to work on a solution for this. The idea behind this was to provide customers with a guide to be able to install Windows* 7 with NVMe* drives that use inbox drivers since Windows* 7 does not contain native NVMe* drivers, this workaround had to be created.As mentioned before, we will be sharing your comments with the proper team as we do care a lot about customer experience and satisfaction.Regards,Nestor C

[MGior1]

Hi, I have lost one week trying to install W7 on a 128 Gb M.2 600P ssd.

I have tried unluckily with your guide and also with Microsoft guide:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2990941/update-to-add-native-driver-support-in-nvm-express-... https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2990941/update-to-add-native-driver-support-in-nvm-express-...

until I have found the reason for the failure of my installation.

I have posted here my experience:

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1236&PID=30884&title=how-to-install-windows-on-a-pcie-ss... 30884 http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1236&PID=30884&title=how-to-install-windows-on-a-pcie-ss... 30884

I hope could be useful for others in my situation and, I'm not an expert, but I believe that Intel should add some hints in its guide to explain better the behavior of DISM procedure on install.wim file, explaining better what happens if someone patch only a single INDEX (corresponding to a single W7 version) instead of all and in general the possible change of the ei.cfg file inside the bootable W7 support created by the procedure.

Good luck.

[idata]

Hi Max_150,

Thanks for your feedback, we'll make sure that this information reaches the right people. Regarding your post, thanks for helping other with this installation, as it may be complicated sometimes due to limitations.Regards,Nestor C

[CDrum]

Windows 7 is garbage, there are tons of security fixes that weren't backported.

Better just learn how to install Classic Shell instead of using outdated software.