Thread: NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
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Old June 26th 16, 12:17 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
Good day.

On 2016-06-18 20:43, wrote:

I may be wrong here but booting win 7 on a NVMe drive should not be a
problem. The problem is if your motherboard can "see" the NVMe drive
and set it as the boot device. All Win 7 needs is a NVMe driver. I use
the samsung driver, but I'm running windows 10. Windows started
supplying it's own NVMe driver with windows 8 so I'm told. Check your
bios or check for bios update. As for the tools you mention I've never
used them, but they should work a drive is a drive once mounted.

Ahhhh lucky you, those drives are amazing. Yup, Win 8 and up have native
support for them, but not Win 7. I do have the Win 7 drivers (2 HotFixes
from Microsoft) but I like to be ready for anything, so I have a lot of
bootable DVD tools, and those will probably not work unless I get newer
versions, if they are available. BIOS is not a problem, they all support
NVMe by now.

I think I'll stick with the plan to get a normal SATA SSD.
NVMe is just too bleeding edge for now.

Thanks.

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