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NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
Good day.
Anyone got experience with booting Win7 on an NVMe drive? There are hotfixes for it for Win7, anyone used them? I'm also wondering if tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard (bootable DVD) or TeraByte's BootIt will work with such a drive... Thanks. Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo Ewoks make better burgers! |
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NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
On 2016-06-05 18:36, B00ze wrote:
Good day. Anyone got experience with booting Win7 on an NVMe drive? There are hotfixes for it for Win7, anyone used them? I'm also wondering if tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard (bootable DVD) or TeraByte's BootIt will work with such a drive... Thanks. Best Regards, Really, no one at all? In a few years NVMe is all there will be; you'd think /someone/ would be using this at the moment (with Windows 7 preferably). Alright, looks like I'll have to wait - I'm not jumping into this without some sort of community support, lol. Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo I! Am! Kirk! Of! Borg! - You! Will! Be! Over! Acted! |
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NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
B00ze wrote:
On 2016-06-05 18:36, B00ze wrote: Good day. Anyone got experience with booting Win7 on an NVMe drive? There are hotfixes for it for Win7, anyone used them? I'm also wondering if tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard (bootable DVD) or TeraByte's BootIt will work with such a drive... Thanks. Best Regards, Really, no one at all? In a few years NVMe is all there will be; you'd think /someone/ would be using this at the moment (with Windows 7 preferably). Alright, looks like I'll have to wait - I'm not jumping into this without some sort of community support, lol. Best Regards, If you want to buy me one, I'm OK with that :-) Paul |
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On 2016-06-17 23:58, Paul wrote:
B00ze wrote: On 2016-06-05 18:36, B00ze wrote: Good day. Anyone got experience with booting Win7 on an NVMe drive? There are hotfixes for it for Win7, anyone used them? I'm also wondering if tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard (bootable DVD) or TeraByte's BootIt will work with such a drive... Thanks. Best Regards, Really, no one at all? In a few years NVMe is all there will be; you'd think /someone/ would be using this at the moment (with Windows 7 preferably). Alright, looks like I'll have to wait - I'm not jumping into this without some sort of community support, lol. Best Regards, If you want to buy me one, I'm OK with that :-) Paul Lol :-) They are not so much more expensive than regular SATA SSDs, but they are 3 to 5 times faster. Newer BIOSes all have support for them. But then will anything besides Windows work with those? For instance, I need to partition this before installing Windows, otherwise I'll end-up with that annoying 500MB boot partition that Windows likes to create to support BitLocker (which I dont need). Anything based on WinPE Win 8 will not work. My Win7-based DART disk will surely not work, unless I pipe the HotFix into it (on ToDo list). Also not sure if Linux-based tools have all been updated (e.g. gPartedEd, PartEdMagic, Minitool Partition Wizard). And then I like to use BootIt to multi-boot, not sure if that will work at all. I could always go around the net asking this question on the forums of every tool I have, but that's kind of a pain... Thank you. Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo C Error #009: FATAL! Portable code found! |
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:11:23 -0400, B00ze wrote:
| Lol :-) They are not so much more expensive than regular SATA SSDs, but | they are 3 to 5 times faster. Newer BIOSes all have support for them. | But then will anything besides Windows work with those? For instance, I | need to partition this before installing Windows, otherwise I'll end-up | with that annoying 500MB boot partition that Windows likes to create to | support BitLocker (which I dont need). Anything based on WinPE Win 8 | will not work. My Win7-based DART disk will surely not work, unless I | pipe the HotFix into it (on ToDo list). Also not sure if Linux-based | tools have all been updated (e.g. gPartedEd, PartEdMagic, Minitool | Partition Wizard). And then I like to use BootIt to multi-boot, not sure | if that will work at all. I could always go around the net asking this | question on the forums of every tool I have, but that's kind of a pain... I read somewhere within the past month or 2 that MiniTool Partition Wizard works with NVMe except on Dell systems for some reason. Also, I suspect the diskpart utility on a newer Windows installation DVD could handle the partitioning as well. Larc |
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On 2016-06-26 18:07, Larc wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:11:23 -0400, B00ze wrote: | Lol :-) They are not so much more expensive than regular SATA SSDs, but | they are 3 to 5 times faster. Newer BIOSes all have support for them. | But then will anything besides Windows work with those? For instance, I | need to partition this before installing Windows, otherwise I'll end-up | with that annoying 500MB boot partition that Windows likes to create to | support BitLocker (which I dont need). Anything based on WinPE Win 8 | will not work. My Win7-based DART disk will surely not work, unless I | pipe the HotFix into it (on ToDo list). Also not sure if Linux-based | tools have all been updated (e.g. gPartedEd, PartEdMagic, Minitool | Partition Wizard). And then I like to use BootIt to multi-boot, not sure | if that will work at all. I could always go around the net asking this | question on the forums of every tool I have, but that's kind of a pain... I read somewhere within the past month or 2 that MiniTool Partition Wizard works with NVMe except on Dell systems for some reason. Also, I suspect the diskpart utility on a newer Windows installation DVD could handle the partitioning as well. Thanks, I'll go download the newer MiniTool Wizard - But I've already decided to use a SATA SSD for the time being; by the time I buy the next PC NVMe will be firmly entrenched (hell, something else will probably have come up displacing it - I don't upgrade my PCs very often). Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo Black holes really suck. |
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On 2016-06-26 18:07, Larc wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:11:23 -0400, B00ze wrote: | Lol :-) They are not so much more expensive than regular SATA SSDs, but | they are 3 to 5 times faster. Newer BIOSes all have support for them. | But then will anything besides Windows work with those? For instance, I | need to partition this before installing Windows, otherwise I'll end-up | with that annoying 500MB boot partition that Windows likes to create to | support BitLocker (which I dont need). Anything based on WinPE Win 8 | will not work. My Win7-based DART disk will surely not work, unless I | pipe the HotFix into it (on ToDo list). Also not sure if Linux-based | tools have all been updated (e.g. gPartedEd, PartEdMagic, Minitool | Partition Wizard). And then I like to use BootIt to multi-boot, not sure | if that will work at all. I could always go around the net asking this | question on the forums of every tool I have, but that's kind of a pain... I read somewhere within the past month or 2 that MiniTool Partition Wizard works with NVMe except on Dell systems for some reason. Also, I suspect the diskpart utility on a newer Windows installation DVD could handle the partitioning as well. Larc Good day. The NEXT version of Partition Wizard will support NVMe (probably) because they are moving away from Linux and going WinPE. For now however, it does not support NVME, as I found this in the comments on their site: Dean Parmenter I cannot see NVMe drives with the bootable image. MiniTool Software Mod Dean Parmenter - a month ago What is the interface of your NVME drive, currently Partition Wizard is not compatible with the new interface such as M.2. Only the traditional interface IDE/SATA can be recognized by Partition Wizard. Regards. Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo It's lonely at the top, but you eat better. |
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NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 23:35:24 -0400, B00ze wrote:
On 2016-06-05 18:36, B00ze wrote: Good day. Anyone got experience with booting Win7 on an NVMe drive? There are hotfixes for it for Win7, anyone used them? I'm also wondering if tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard (bootable DVD) or TeraByte's BootIt will work with such a drive... Thanks. Best Regards, Really, no one at all? In a few years NVMe is all there will be; you'd think /someone/ would be using this at the moment (with Windows 7 preferably). Alright, looks like I'll have to wait - I'm not jumping into this without some sort of community support, lol. Best Regards, 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. Goog Luck |
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NVMe M.2 SSD Win7, anyone with experience?
Hi Take a look at this site. It may answer your questions. Unfortunately I
am not up to date with these drives. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx Hope this helps |
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