Phison E7 based NVME & Windows 7

[PliotronX]

The story is, I'm trying to help a heavy Revit/Navisworks/CAD user get onto a fresh install with an NVME drive and while the system does support UEFI, I am wondering: will the driverless Phison E7 be read as a disk during installation? I can't find a concrete answer. I can get him onto 10 but he might be pissy until he experiences the speed

 

[VirtualLarry]

Windows 7 does have an NVMe driver available from Microsoft, but it's not present in the default install image. Either slipstream the driver, or present a USB drive containing the driver, during installation.

Note that doing so may be problematic on Skylake / Kaby Lake systems, because Windows 7 doesn't have USB3.0 drivers, either.

 

[PliotronX]

Windows 7 does have an NVMe driver available from Microsoft, but it's not present in the default install image. Either slipstream the driver, or present a USB drive containing the driver, during installation.

Note that doing so may be problematic on Skylake / Kaby Lake systems, because Windows 7 doesn't have USB3.0 drivers, either.

Thank you VL!! Sweetness, I think I found it..?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I think that's the one.

 

[PliotronX]

Man that's awesome thank you! I've prepared a slipstreamed ISO - this guy is going to poop when he runs his software. He will be the envy of the other CAD users