As a more than 9-year-old operating system (OS) Windows 7 does not has native support for NVMe drives.īased on different motherboards you use, you will meet two kinds of problems when you trying to install Windows 7 on NVMe SSD.įor 100/200 serial motherboard, all the USB port will not work in the Windows Setup screen due to lack of USB3.0 driver.įor other motherboards, the NVMe SSD cannot be recognized in the Windows Setup due to lack of NVMe driver.ĭepending on what situation you face, you need to prepare differently. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs, which is regarded as the future of SSDs. Why is Windows 7 installation not showing my NVMe drive?
