Windows 7 Not Seeing NVME-PCI-e Drive

[michael diemer]

I have a Windows 7 and Linux dual-boot. I recently installed a Samsung 980 NVME-PCIe drive, which I use to host orhcestral libraries for my compositional work. Linux, where I do most of my work, sees it no problem. windows 7 does not.

The drive stats:

Partitioning: GUID
File System: NTFS
Partitioning Type: Basic Data

There is no operating system on it, I just use it for fast loading of the orchestra sounds, which take forever on a HDD. but I can't use it on Windows, and there are still things I may want to do Windows, so I would like to get it up and running. Otherwise I'll have to accept very long load times for my projects (at least 5 minutes or more).

Is this possible?

 

[Rokinamerica]

Natively Win 7 does will not, is my understanding.

"Please check Microsoft Update Catalog for the appropriate drive. If said drive is not available, you will probably need to get it from the manufacturer of the device. Please also see: Update to add native driver support in NVM Express in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2."

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...7-64-bit/0afea0c8-eeb8-443e-9c02-1ef8b2696242

Been so long since I used 7, so not sure if this is what you need, but hopefully.

 

[kerberos_20]

samsung doesnt have nvme driver for 980 pro, it ends with 970
microsoft no longer offers nvme driver for windows 7 (KB2990941 and KB3087873) even if nvme website still points to it
but you can get it here: KB2990941-v3-x64 and KB3087873-v2-x64.

 

[michael diemer]

It looks like one of them is the driver, and the other the hotfix. I'll proceed on that assumption and see how it goes.
thanks guys.

 

[vov4ik_il]

I would verify HW compatibility 1st, not every motherboard works with NVMe

 

[SkyNetRising]

It looks like one of them is the driver, and the other the hotfix.

There are 2 hotfixes and a driver.
All of those are necessary for windows 7 to add nvme support.

 

[michael diemer]

KB3087873 did the trick! Thanks, and once again Tom's Hardware comes through, proving it's the best such forum in the world.

 

[michael diemer]

There are 2 hotfixes and a driver.
All of those are necessary for windows 7 to add nvme support.

You must have posted this just after I installed KB3087873. I have KB2990941 but did not install it yet. but the disk is recognized now in Disk Management. So, should I install KB2990941 as well?

 

[kerberos_20]

hotfixes are when you get issues

 

[SkyNetRising]

So, should I install KB2990941 as well?

It might already be installed.

Anyway - both of them are required.