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,

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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,

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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

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,

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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

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).

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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.

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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

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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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