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I have the m/b ASUS X99-PRO/USB3.1 and the m.2 drive Samsung SM951 256GB NVMe. I spent 3 days trying and trying, reading forums, many people seem to have problem with m.2 drives. The m.2 drive does not appear in Windows 7 x64 installation. I do everything right as described in tutorials and forums. I used rufus and created an uefi usb stick fat32, gpt, bootx64.efi, etc.
Windows 7 installation starts but no drive appears. I have no other drives connected untill I install windows. I tried the same with a windows 10 uefi boot and worked. No problems at all, I was able to see the drive and create the required partitions. Windows 7 seem to need something extra to see the drive. Any help please? That bootx64.efi file should have been all you needed - did you do a disk clean on the M.2 before partitioning it GPT?
I've had to do clean installs of win 7 x64 on my xp941 (Z97 mobo) twice, and the 2nd time was not that much easier - there is an 'iffy' factor but, as an after thought, after i crashed my xp941 the 2nd time, i tried a 'fred Flintstone' approach. I had cloned my xp941 after full installation, cloned it to a sata SSD, so i tried cloning back to the xp941 - it cloned but initially would not boot, until i used the windows dvd to 'repair the installation'. Now that was using a PCI M.2 SSD that was already operating fine. If you have a clone, even from a sata OS drive, you might try it - ramcity had it listed in their installation guide, so you might check there for any tips re cloning from a sata SSD to a PCI M.2 SSD and just for general info, my system crashed twice when i tried changing the volume sizes of the partitions using windows management and 2nd time EaseUS Partition Manager, so i gave up trying to change partition sizes. I want to avoid this its a very long and difficult procedure. I did some test, using acronis created a winPE 5 bootable drive and I was able to see the m.2 drive older versions don't work because m.2 drives were not available then so there is no driver either in win7 or winpe 3 kit. So I cannot understand how some people were able to load the m.2 drive.
Bootx64 loads windows installation in uefi mode but that's it does have any drivers only what windows have. This is my understanding if someone has explanation why I cannot load my drive or a suggestion how to load it.
It's a PCI express drive not AHCI so this makes a difference. I not sure - i haven't had to use it as my PCIe SSD is a first gen xp941 - i will be looking for the answer though, as i'm waiting for the new samsung 950 Pro NVMe SSD coming out this month i would have thought that it would install during the windows install where it asks for drivers to be uploaded - but if you can't there, then i'd go the clone route after installing to your normal OS drive was there anything in that samsung guide re installing that drive - i remember some reference to a 'SetupNVMe.exe' which should be the installer - but where to find it, i haven't a clue. In the link you gave me there is a guide to update a windows installation with this patch, it's a long and complicate procedure It's good I have Windos ADK 8.1 already installed on my laptop and I have started working on it.
On a Windows temporary installation on another drive the patch worked and I was able to see the NVMe drive within Windows 7 I tried to copy the nvme drivers and load them in windos installation but it didn't work. So I will try to update the installation with the patch and see how it goes.
After a long week of desperation and anger I did the impossible. Installed and booted Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 NVMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was looking and looking all over the internet for others who might have found a solution but nothing, am I the first who did it? Installing and booting Windows 7 on this drive simply is impossible there is no driver, no workaround in BIOS settings. With windows 8.1 or 10 however it works but I hate them so. For everyone else out there who want to stick with Windows 7 there is a solution but it's not simple.
You have to integrate a Microsoft hotfix in installation so you can boot Windows. Unfortunatelly you can't do the same with setup. Instead and simpler is to use Windows 10 setup installation which is updated and contains NVMe driver. It works perfectly.
Keep in mind the native driver is not the best but it works, the SM951 is ultra fast anyway, hopefully when 950 pro is out it's drive will be compatible and better for faster speeds. What you need: Windows 7 SP1 x64.iso Windows 10.iso Microsoft hotfix NTlite First request and download the hotfix, e-mail arrives instantly with a link. Download and install NTlite (or other similar you prefer) 2. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder. If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab it from a current installation of Windows 7 x64.
C: Windows Boot EFI bootmgfw.efi copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi. Using WinRAR or 7-zip extract the Microsoft hotfix.exe file. Run NTlite and open the iso folder. You will see 2 folders your current windows and 2nd the iso folder open and choose the version you want to install, home, ultimate etc.
And press load, or right click load. It takes sometime. 4.1 Go to updates and add package file. Alexandros76, I wanted to thank you for all this information. I was banging my head around too then came across yet another article to try thinking. Great I hope this works. My company's VPN does not allow Windows 10 and who knows how long that will be right?
To add my notes to this article. I have an ASUS Z170-Deluxe MB with the SM951.
I had to first, download the latest BIOS 1106 onto a USB drive and install through the BIOS updater. Worked just fine.
I could see the M2 connected to the motherboard in the BIOS only, however, when trying to install the OS the drive from Windows 7 USB boot up from rufus I could not see the drive available to install onto. Then I found your article. Disconnect ALL other SATA devices!
Download and install NTlite (or other similar you prefer) 2. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder. If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab from a current installation of Windows 7 x64 the bootmgfw.efi from C: Windows Boot EFI copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi. Using WinRAR or 7-zip extract the Microsoft hotfix.exe file. Run NTlite and load iso folder.
Select the folder you extracted Windows 7. Then select the OS you are importing 4.1 Go to updates and add package file.
No matter what type of installation you do, Windows 7, 8, 10, uefi or mbr all other drives should be disconnected that's true I agree 100%. Simply because installations might use the other drives for system partitions and in future if you replace a drive windows will not boot because they will miss their system partition! I just didn't put that info because I was writting only about NVMe fix. And my suggestion now after bitter experience if you can install in legacy mode/mbr do it uefi causes compatibility problems and it's a lot more complicate. Also best to have your hard drive ready formatted using DISKPART and copy all the installation files there going from USB didn't work for me Windows were refusing to install from USB drive.
Plus installing directly from your drive to drive it's a LOT faster. And a note about installers. When you start a windows installation you start a virtual OS a small version of windows. Windows 7 are using an installer based on Vista and Windows 10 installer based on 10.
So boot.wim is the installer which handles the install.wim the Windows. The most recent installer the better, so Windows 10 installer has NVMe drivers while the old Vista doesn't and it will never work no matter how you configure your BIOS. After a long week of desperation and anger I did the impossible. Installed and booted Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 NVMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was looking and looking all over the internet for others who might have found a solution but nothing, am I the first who did it? Installing and booting Windows 7 on this drive simply is impossible there is no driver, no workaround in BIOS settings. With windows 8.1 or 10 however it works but I hate them so.
For everyone else out there who want to stick with Windows 7 there is a solution but it's not simple. You have to integrate a Microsoft hotfix in installation so you can boot Windows. Unfortunatelly you can't do the same with setup.
Instead and simpler is to use Windows 10 setup installation which is updated and contains NVMe driver. It works perfectly. Keep in mind the native driver is not the best but it works, the SM951 is ultra fast anyway, hopefully when 950 pro is out it's drive will be compatible and better for faster speeds.
What you need: Windows 7 SP1 x64.iso Windows 10.iso Microsoft hotfix NTlite First request and download the hotfix, e-mail arrives instantly with a link. Download and install NTlite (or other similar you prefer) 2. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder.
If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab it from a current installation of Windows 7 x64. C: Windows Boot EFI bootmgfw.efi copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi. Using WinRAR or 7-zip extract the Microsoft hotfix.exe file. Run NTlite and open the iso folder. You will see 2 folders your current windows and 2nd the iso folder open and choose the version you want to install, home, ultimate etc.
And press load, or right click load. It takes sometime. 4.1 Go to updates and add package file. After a long week of desperation and anger I did the impossible.
Installed and booted Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 NVMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was looking and looking all over the internet for others who might have found a solution but nothing, am I the first who did it?
Installing and booting Windows 7 on this drive simply is impossible there is no driver, no workaround in BIOS settings. With windows 8.1 or 10 however it works but I hate them so. For everyone else out there who want to stick with Windows 7 there is a solution but it's not simple. You have to integrate a Microsoft hotfix in installation so you can boot Windows. Unfortunatelly you can't do the same with setup. Instead and simpler is to use Windows 10 setup installation which is updated and contains NVMe driver.
It works perfectly. Keep in mind the native driver is not the best but it works, the SM951 is ultra fast anyway, hopefully when 950 pro is out it's drive will be compatible and better for faster speeds. What you need: Windows 7 SP1 x64.iso Windows 10.iso Microsoft hotfix NTlite First request and download the hotfix, e-mail arrives instantly with a link. Download and install NTlite (or other similar you prefer) 2. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder. If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab it from a current installation of Windows 7 x64.
C: Windows Boot EFI bootmgfw.efi copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi. Using WinRAR or 7-zip extract the Microsoft hotfix.exe file.
Run NTlite and open the iso folder. You will see 2 folders your current windows and 2nd the iso folder open and choose the version you want to install, home, ultimate etc. And press load, or right click load. It takes sometime. 4.1 Go to updates and add package file.
Okay, I figured it out. When you revised your guide (by crossing out the stuff about IE) you also left out to replace both boot.wim and setup.exe from the windows 10 ISO. Apparently setup.exe is not needed, at least not with my iso. Only boot.wim and install.wim as I say in guide. I'm happy using my NVMe drive for several weeks now and recently installed the which are better and it's even faster now.
Native windows drivers I know that they were really bad and were not using all NVMe capabilities. HP drivers can be installed just clicking the exe file but I extracted them and selected the NVMe controller from device manager and updated the drivers then it worked.
Probably they can be used on a Windows 7 setup but I haven't tested them. Spot on, Alexandros76! I too was looking around the net for a solution to the Windows 7 NVMe issue.
You certainly are not the only person out there that is up against this problem. Your solution works well. I now have Windows 7 Pro x64 running on a Samsung SM951 M.2 drive installed in a MSI X99A Gaming 7 board. Note: your final instruction to remove files boot.win and setup.exe from the iso folder and replace them with the win10 versions was not quite complete. Open Windows 10.iso with winrar and extract the boot.wim to your sources folder of Windows 7. We also need to include the setup.exe file as follows: 5. Open Windows 10.iso with winrar and extract the boot.wim and setup.exe to your sources folder of Windows 7.
At the end of this process, I copied the content of the iso folder back into a copy of the original iso file and then ran Rufus-2.5 to create a bootable usb stick. Thank you for sharing this info and your effort to provide such a good solution, Alexandros76. Cheers, Robert. Alexandros76 Thank you for the hard work which you have obviously put into this topic. I, too, had come up against a brick wall in trying to load Windows 7 onto my Samsung SM951 M.2 drive. I have a Gigabyte GAZ170X-UD3 MB with the SM951 and the latest BIOS, F4.
I intend moving to Windows10 but because I have an application which will not run under Windows 10 I decided on setting up a dual boot system. I had no problems in installing Windows 10 Pro 64-bit in UEFI mode on the SM951 and, during the process, left unallocated space on the SM951 for the loading of Windows 7 Pro x-64.
That was when the world of SM951 came tumbling down. No matter what i did, I could not get the install of Windows 7 to recognize the SM951. As far as Windows 7 install was concerned the SM951 did not exist. I searched and searched the internet to no avail. That was until I came across your article.
I'm about to start heading down your recommended path but before I do, I have a couple of points that I would like to clarify. The note against Step 2. Says that if you are installing in UEFI, and I am, you should check efi/boot for the file bootx64.efi. When I look at the extraction of Windows 7.iso I don't have efi/boot but do have efi/microsoft/boot. This folder does not contain bootx64.efi. Is efi/microsoft/boot the folder to paste the bootmgfw.efi to before renaming it to bootx64.efi?
Step 4.2 says to delete boot.wim and setup.exe from the sources folder of the updated Windows 7.iso folder and Step 5. Says to extract the boot.wim from the Windows 10.iso and copy to the sources folder of the updated Windows 7.iso folder. In your response to JR4 on 27Oct15 where JR4 had mentioned that you had left out replacing setup.exe from the Windows 10.iso, you said that setup.exe was not needed, at least not with your iso, only boot.wim and install.wim as mentioned in the guide.
While there are references to install.wim in your guide they mainly relate to the size of install.wim being less than 4GB. There is one reference you made on 10Oct15 about using the most recent installer is better but no mention of install.wim in the guide other than the 4GB size limit. What should I do with install.wim in the sources folder of the updated Windows 7.iso and is setup.exe really required??? I apologize for seeking all this clarification but I am at my wits end in trying to get Windows 7 installed on the SM951 and your guide is my only lifeline. I don't want to stuff things up!!!! Update: I thought I had managed to create a successful bootable UEFI USB for Windows 7 only to get into the install phase and have the following error come up: 'Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation.'
What have I missed out on / done incorrectly in creating my bootable Windows 7 USB? A BIG THANK YOU TO Alexandros76! Works with my Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 and a ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4/D3 (yes, a ddr3 Board). I had to copy both, boot.wim and setup.exe just like JR4. Additionally the installer had a problem with creating a partition. After I unplugged the USB stick from its USB2 port (during the installation) I inserted it in a USB3 Port hit refresh - and everything worked just fine. @GoldenOrb 1.
Had the same prob like you - I did it in efi microsoft boot and it worked. Like I said, I had to copy both, boot.wim and setup.exe. You can try it without the setup.exe and if this wont work try it with it.
To your 'update' - sorry but I cant help you with that Again, Alexandro76 - YOU ARE MY HERO. Windows 7 Pro x64 and Windows 10 Pro x64 now dual booting on Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 and Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3. This is how I finally achieved it after literally hours of trying various combinations.
Used Rufus to create a Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 bootable USB (GPT/FAT32/Default cluster size). Copy/paste bootmgfw.efi (from C: Windows Boot EFI) to G: efi microsoft boot and rename to bootx64.efi. Copy/paste G: efi microsoft boot to G: efi. Using NTlite add package KB2990941-v3-x64.msu to install.wim of Windows 7 Professional x64 on the USB. Using NTlite add Samsung NVMe driver (downloaded from HP Support Centre) to install.wim of Windows 7 Professional x 64 on the USB and to boot.wim by selecting Microsoft Windows Setup (X64). Using NTlite add Gigabyte USB 3.0 driver (downloaded from Gigabyte.com) to install.wim of Windows 7 Professional x 64 on the USB and to boot.wim by selecting Microsoft Windows Setup (X64). This step is necessary for booting from USB on Gigabyte's 100 series boards.
Boot from the UEFI USB in system containing the Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 with all SATA drives disconnected and you should see the NVMe drive. Set up a partition for Windows 7 Pro allowing sufficient space for Windows 10 and install. Boot Windows 10 Pro from a bootable USB and install on remaining unallocated space on the NVMe drive. You should now have a dual booting Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 system.
Hello, the last weeks I'm feeling terrible. I bought a ASUS H170M-PLUS and a Samsung SM951 NVMe. I want a Windows 7 64bit System.
I'm a German user and I found nothing about this Problem in my language. Apologize my bad English, please. Alexandros76 seemed to by my hero, but something went wrong. I prepared a USB-Stick after Alexandros description. A changed install.wim vom Windows 7 and the boot.wim from Windows 10. I see the SM951 in my Boot menu, the Installation want to start and then black Screen: File: Windows System32 boot winload.efi Status 0xc0000428 Info: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file What can I do?
Thank you for help. News: GA-Z170N-WIFI Ssd Samsung SM951 M.2 Bios F6 Bios Option: Windows 8/10 Features: Other OS Storage Boot Option UEFI ONLY Sata Configuration: AHCI Create a usb key with Alexandros76 guide. After this re-open N-lite and create iso from folder that you have previous made. Download from gigabyte motherboard page WindowsImageTools for add USB 3.0 driver to Windows 7 Usb. Put usb, reboot and boot from usb. If windows ask for driver, download from gigabyte motherboard, put on usb and select folder. Windows 7 Install Flawselly.
After doing this, i change some bios parameter for made Raid. Infact, i have two samsung 850 pro in raid 1 mode. Activate raid in bios, and change storage boot option to legacy. If you not change this parameter, you can't boot from sm951 if raid is activated on another drive. After boot, go to windows and install this driver for sm951 m.2: Url: This is my benchmark: Incredibile speed. Thanks to all from italy! Hopefully when 950 pro is out it's drive will be compatible and better for faster speeds.
On a related note did anyone try to install Windows 7 x64 onto the new Samsung 950 Pro m.2 drive? I was chatting with RamCity a few minutes ago as I'm considering purchasing 2 950 Pro NVMe for my Windows 2008 R2 server, and one for my Windows 7 Sp1 X99 system. It seems that the 950 Pro still requires the steps that have described here.
My question is. Is the process you have documented the same for Windows 2008 R2 SP1? Yes - i've installed win 7 x64 on two 950 PROs in near identical systems.
OS was installed on a xp941 in both cases, after installing samsung's NVMe driver and rebooting, then cloned the xp941s to the 950s using samsung's data migration software (took under 10 minutes) - both systems ran perfectly. Go over to anandtech's memory & storage forum - there's a fairly long thread with a number of posters indicating near identical approach, basically cloning their OS drive (in most cases Sata HDDs or Sata SSDs) using a number of different software - macrium reflect and Gparted Live are two of them.
Go to about pg 10 in the thread: Since the clone installation, i tried cloning the 950 to a sata drive (840 EVO) using EaseUS and it would not recognize the 950 PRO. It would recognize it in windows, then when i clikked 'proceed' it asked to reboot, i assume in a vs of linux, and once rebooted, the NVMe drive was not on the list and it did not go forward with the cloning. One interesting part about the samsung data migration software - it would clone to the 950 from the xp941, but when i tried to clone the OS back to the xp941 it would not - only assumption i could make was that the xp941 was an OEM drive and not on the list of 'supported' SSDs. But samsung's data migration software would clone to an old 810 SSD (first gen SSD) but also an OEM drive (came out of a Dell laptop). And the 810 is also not on the supported SSD list. But both systems i cloned have been up and running fine now, one of the for 10 days fwiw. As I said you can simply install Windows 7 as usual and provide the driver during installation, no cloning or other hassle is needed!
Not anymore How can i provide the driver during intsallation? Can you please make a short guide?
I tried to include the driver in induvidual ISO with NTLite, but i failed (windows setup hang up). But i have no experience with NTLite at all, maybe i do it wrong. UP1: I found now this guide, i give it a try (last page): UP2: I am not able to load the driver from second usb stick. The second stick does not appear in the 'browse file' dialog. UP3: Now i was able to load additional driver (tried many different), but always the message is shown that the driver is already loaded. Installation doesn't work.
UP4: ASUS Z170 A Firmware 1302 with SM951 NVMe still not working UP5: I come to the install step which asks for driver, but no one of the driver i try works. If i select 'show all driver with incompatibility' and at a driver the installation gets freezed. UP6: Finally i got to the windows 7 install process. After installation i got an error message: Windows failed to start.
A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. File: ifM63x64.sys Info: Windows failed to load a required file Because is missing or corrupt. UP7: i builded a windows 7 image with all updates (general, security) with 'windows hotfix downloader' and Samsung NMVe driver. Through installation i had asus driver cd in dvd drive. While installation i added PCI+NVMe driver again with extra USB stick (used 'back and forward' trick, for refreshing device list).
NOW IT WORKS! I am going to install Windows 7 on a SM951 in next days (on a ASROCK Z97 extreme6). I am reading this thread since weeks and thanks to Alexandros76 help I did create the needed pen drive as explained.
Now that it seems all this is no more needed I want to try the easier way first (just start a normal Windows iso installation and make it load the needed driver). But I still have some questions. I hope someone will help me because this will surely help also the others that will come here: 1 - Which driver is better? The HP one (1.4.7.6 Rev.A - 15 giu 2015): Or the one that Samsung released (1.4.7.16) for the 950Pro that seems to work good also on the SM951? You can find the 'pure driver' around the web. Just an example link: 2 - Which is the best way to format the disk, GPTT or just MBR?
3 - Is it better to install Windows 7 in UEFI mode or just CSM Legacy Mode? 4 - Last but not least. When everything will be installed and working is there a way to make an image of the installation and restore it on the disk if needed?
I usually do this by using an Hiren's boot pen drive and Norton Ghost But I don't think it would see the SM951 for obvious reasons. Thanks a lot for your time. Hi All, I have a very similar problem and I am lost to be honest. So I would like to direct this to 3 users since they have most of the info or similar situtation @Alexandros76, @ GoldenOrb, @ The Original Ralph I have 2 Samsung 950 Pro NVME drives.
I have an i5 6600k with 2 different MOBO's. Yes 2 different ones since I cant get either to work.
Trying to install Win7. Want a RAID0 drive from the 2 x 950Pros I started out with a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 board. I installed the 2 SSD's in the M2 slots.
No other drives or anything. Updated to latest BIOS and still the drives are NOT shown in the BIOS drive information menu area at all. When I look in the boot menu only 1 of the 2 drives is ever shown. I take one 950 Pro out, the BIOS still sees 1 (that one). I take that one out and put the other back in the opposite M2 slot. The BIOS still only sees the 1 drive. I put both in, and the BIOS only ever shows the 1 in the boot menu.
I screw around with Gigabyte USB3.0 tool (since the 100 series boards wont read usb thumb drives unless they are USB 3.0) and finally get Win7 installer to run, guess what, no drives seen. Go back into the BIOS and the drives are still not shown.
After 4 days of attempts and 5 days of waiting on Gigabyte tech support to reply to my support tickets (which they still have not acknowledged after a week) I gave up and switched to a different board. Got a MSI Z170A Gaming M7 board. Loaded into the BIOS, changed the SATA config to RAID.
No drives shown. MSI forums are actually helpful. Went in and found that I have to tell the BIOS to enable the WIn8.1/10 option (disable the Win7 boot option). Now the 2 950 Pros are visible in the BIOS. Still in the BIOS I enable RAID0, create the RAID volume and reboot the PC to go back into the BIOS to enable one last setting that appears only after setting up the RAID. However once I enable Win8.1/10 boot option on this board, the POSt no longer works and the boot does not get as far as the 'hit DEL key to enter the BIOS' screen.
I get a EFI Shell DOS prompt instead. It lists this: - EFI Shell Version 2.4 (5.11) Current running mode 1.1.2 Device Mapping Table blk0: Blockdevice - Alias (null) PciRoot (0x0)/Pci(0x1B,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Unit(0x1) blk1: Blockdevice - Alias (null) PciRoot (0x0)/Pci(0x1B,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Unit(0x1) Press ESC in 5 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue.
Shell - It goes no further. Cant even get into the Win7 loader. I have to type 'EXIT' and it auto loads me into the BIOS. I have mixed and trial and error settings.
Even went as far as hauling all the drives out of the MOBO. So to be clear the MOBO has no physical hard drives of any type on board. On this MIS board, as soon as I enable Win8.1/10 option and reboot, the Shell menu comes up.
So I think I have to force back to trying the Gigabyte board (even though their technical support is literally non existent). So my questions are: - Is the main post above from Alexandros76 dated October 7, 2015 5:20:46 PM have everything laid out from start to finish? There is a lot of posts past the main one with more information and I am getting lost.
Want to install Win7, which I see I have to do the Win10 criss cross with the loaders. I am not even sure how to get the Win10 iso file since all I have is the Win7 installer. When people were setting up this Win7/Win10 hack, were the drives configured as RAID0 or a single drive only?
- Has someone run the 950 Pros in RAID? I want to set up RAID 0 from the start. I was reading above and someone mentioned something about setting up differently and then using magician to copy info over and then drop the 950's over to the PC.
So in that case are they RAID0??? Were they seen in the BIOS or just windows? I find everything above a little overwhelming and hoping someone can break it down for me please. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder.
If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab it from a current installation of Windows 7 x64. C: Windows Boot EFI bootmgfw.efi copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi. Which directory inside the Win7 ISO folder structure does it go in? There is a separate efi folder, boot folder, etc. Under the efi folder there is nothing but another folder called microsoft and in that another folder called boot?!?! Hacking omegle. So which folder?
Thanks Alexandros76, your solution was most helpful. Asus Z170-Pro with 256GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 - In my case, as mylastknight indicated, I needed both the boot.wim and setup.exe from the Windows 10.iso Also, in STEP 2, I had to add a boot folder for the bootx64.efi file.
My Win7.iso has efi microsoft boot. It did not work when I put the file in that boot folder (or I messed something up along the way.) so I made it look like this efi boot bootx64.efi (leaving the efi Microsoft boot alone) and it worked; finally;-) Thanks again for all you effort Alexandros76; you too mylastknight:)!!! - ATTO 900MB/s write and 2200MB/s reads; man these drives are fast. I am going to install Windows 7 on a SM951 in next days (on a ASROCK Z97 extreme6). I am reading this thread since weeks and thanks to Alexandros76 help I did create the needed pen drive as explained. Now that it seems all this is no more needed I want to try the easier way first (just start a normal Windows iso installation and make it load the needed driver). But I still have some questions.
I hope someone will help me because this will surely help also the others that will come here: 1 - Which driver is better? The HP one (1.4.7.6 Rev.A - 15 giu 2015): Or the one that Samsung released (1.4.7.16) for the 950Pro that seems to work good also on the SM951? You can find the 'pure driver' around the web. Just an example link: 2 - Which is the best way to format the disk, GPTT or just MBR?
3 - Is it better to install Windows 7 in UEFI mode or just CSM Legacy Mode? 4 - Last but not least. When everything will be installed and working is there a way to make an image of the installation and restore it on the disk if needed?
I usually do this by using an Hiren's boot pen drive and Norton Ghost But I don't think it would see the SM951 for obvious reasons. Thanks a lot for your time.
Either driver fine, but keep updating to new rev when installed for improvement 2 and 3. Most mb require uefi for nvme and tha means gpt format. Use a clean disk, diskpart clean if not already and windows install will handle partitions and formatting.
Windows build in backup and create backup system partition works a treat.can also create a uefi bootable dvd system repair disk. Hope this helps. After a long week of desperation and anger I did the impossible. Installed and booted Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 NVMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was looking and looking all over the internet for others who might have found a solution but nothing, am I the first who did it? Installing and booting Windows 7 on this drive simply is impossible there is no driver, no workaround in BIOS settings. With windows 8.1 or 10 however it works but I hate them so.
For everyone else out there who want to stick with Windows 7 there is a solution but it's not simple. You have to integrate a Microsoft hotfix in installation so you can boot Windows.
Unfortunatelly you can't do the same with setup. Instead and simpler is to use Windows 10 setup installation which is updated and contains NVMe driver. It works perfectly. Keep in mind the native driver is not the best but it works, the SM951 is ultra fast anyway, hopefully when 950 pro is out it's drive will be compatible and better for faster speeds. What you need: Windows 7 SP1 x64.iso Windows 10.iso Microsoft hotfix NTlite First request and download the hotfix, e-mail arrives instantly with a link. Download and install NTlite (or other similar you prefer) 2. Extract the Windows 7.iso to a folder.
If you are installing in UEFI mode, check efi/boot there should be a bootx64.efi. If not grab it from a current installation of Windows 7 x64. C: Windows Boot EFI bootmgfw.efi copy/paste and rename it to bootx64.efi.
Using WinRAR or 7-zip extract the Microsoft hotfix.exe file. Run NTlite and open the iso folder. You will see 2 folders your current windows and 2nd the iso folder open and choose the version you want to install, home, ultimate etc. And press load, or right click load.
It takes sometime. 4.1 Go to updates and add package file. GA-Z170X-UD3 (and other Z170 motherboards) i7-7600K Samsung SM951 NVMe (MZVPV512HDGL-00000) Trying to install windows 10, receive a message saying something like 'missing driver' GigaByte Support ticket, 7 day response time that didnt help!!
I wish I could run my IT support company like that!! The issue also occurs for me with JUST a SATA 500Gb HDD, so not a driver/NVMe issue I used vLite to integrate the HP NVMe driver and GigaByte util to add the USB drivers to the USB stick The issue was resolved by: - boot from the windows 10 (or windows 7, both have the same issue) USB stick. once into the setup and have a mouse pointer, before clicking anything, remove the USB drive from the computer.
click next/continue, the installation wizard will run through until a pop up saying something like 'missing driver' - plug the USB stick into a DIFFERENT USB port - Wait for the USB drive to be found by the system (60 seconds or so) - hit the 'rescan' button and the installation continues I am a 3rd line Hardware Systems Engineer with over 25 years experience and have never seen this before. This took me over 20 hours to just to get windows installed, with NO help from GigaByte.
Alexandros76 YOU ARE THE MAN SIR!!!! 2 days of trying to get USB 2.0 drive to work with USB 3.0 and nothing worked. After all that I installed windows 10 so that I can install windows 7 PRO via desktop, and have dual Win7/10 boot but ran into this same problem wasted all day till I found your post it worked like a charm. At first I fallowed your steps and tried to install WIn7 via desktop thinking that I can't install via USB2 TO USB3 motherboard, and it didn't work.
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It worked great when I booted up windows 7 install from the bootup USB Drive with the modified Win 7PRO. It looked like it was installing windows 10, but once done there it was Win7 PRO Than you sir!!! Clearly we need a couple of new text books for 'Dummies'. How to install Windows 7 Pro/ Ultimate x64 on any M.2 SSD?
How to set up RAID 0 or 1 with SSD's or M.2. (regarding to the latest chip sets - mother boards that came out in 2014 and 2015). The culprit is with the changes that Microsoft and Intel incorporated into the hardware/software/drivers forcing most of us and everyone to use OS Windows 10.
No one wants Windows 10 cause it invades our PRIVACY. Do you know that Microsoft has Hot Fixes for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 so they can spy on you.
^^ Thanks everyone for your effort and support towards this post: Install Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 m.2 drive! After a long week of desperation and anger I did the impossible.
Hp Elitebook 6930 P Windows 7
Installed and booted Windows 7 x64 on Samsung SM951 NVMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've tried this method, along with some of the follow-ups seen below. I am able to successfully boot the Windows 7 USB, which has the updated setup.exe, boot.wim and bootx64.efi files with no issues. However, it never recognizes the Samsung NVMe M.2 drive. I've tried multiple boot modes for the drive.
Legacy boot, UEFI, RAID. It ends the same always, I get the 'missing driver' screen that is referenced in a few posts on here. I attempted the solution, to pull the USB and then put in a new slot, then rescan, with no luck. Additionally, I've copied multiple NVMe drivers on the USB, along with slipstreaming them, and I can never get the install to see the Samsung M.2 drive. Any other thoughts on what to dry?