600p driver For windows 7 Preinstall

[idata]

I have been struggling for 3 days to install windows 7 on to a new Intel 60oP M.2 drive.

All the NVMe drivers that I have been sent or found do not recognise the drive

I have tried slip streaming and loading the drivers during install and they all fail to find the drive

I have tried MS standard NVMe express drivers as per this page https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941 which is also failing

To test that the SSD is in fact working in the board I installed windows 10 pro successfully and updated and surfed the net fine

So I need to find a proper driver.

Thanks

[idata]

Thanks for the request to lodge a support request with Intel.

The request was lodged as

Issue:

600p is not useable at all on Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1, as of September 2016.

Reproduce:

Install 600p as primary disk

Install Windows 7 Pro sp1 x64 with DVD on secondary SATA disk.

Receive email of driver https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2990941

Run driver executable

Learn from install log file and inf that driver install will not complete as it does not support 600p

No other Windows 7 Intel NVMe driver available.

Unfortunately, the entire intel support request system is broken, and after entering all the details, gives the message.

System Unavailable

Intel Customer Support Service Request Management is unavailable. We are actively working to resolve the system issue.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

- Intel Customer Support Team

[idata]

Hello DaveMc,

Thank you for reporting the online request service is having issues, we will report it right away. In the meantime, you may want to try our http://intelsupportchat.force.com/icslivechat/ics_tech_ssd_ww_english_Chat Live Chat Support, they will be able to create a case for you and give you further instructions. Remember to make a reference of this thread, for better addressing of this situation.We will be waiting for you.Regards,NC

[idata]

Hello DaveMc,

We would like to know if you were able to get in contact with our support department and if you require further assistance from us. We will be waiting for your response.Regards,NC

[idata]

Pr05t3n and DaveMc,

Could you please follow this public article created by Intel:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/solid-state-drives/Intel_6_Series_PCIeNVMe_... http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/solid-state-drives/Intel_6_Series_PCIeNVMe_...

Let us know if this helps.

Regards.

[dd9]

Hi,

I also did the mistake and bought 256GB Intel SSD 600P series...

The intent was to use it as a primary drive using Windows 7 on Gigabyte GA-B150M-HD3 with Skylake i3 CPU because of the advantageous NVMe speed over the SATA.

I spent wole day bothering with it, I have tried all the options:

- just provide driver (AHCI, USB3, whatever found, from Gigabyte; from Intel) during the installation (the USB3 drivers just hangs the installer, nice)

- incorporate two Microsoft related hotfixes to the boot/install wim files of the image

- incorporate various drivers (Intel RST, Intel USB3.0) to the boot/install wim files

- try to install from USB also as another bootable (regular) sata drive

No luck, no result.

The motherboard sees the drive, but the installer does not.

It is really such a problem to provide preinstall driver for this drive as other manufacturers do?

I'm going to return this useless piece of... hardware and buy just normal sata drive 😞

Intel hardware used to be exceptional in the past...