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I bought an Intel SSD 750 series 400GB disc and I want to install OS onto it. It's nicely plugged-in.

When I try to install Windows 7 x64 onto this drive, first I need to specify a driver that has been attached on a CD with this drive because it is not visible without it. So after the drive is visible it says I cannot install OS there, because:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.

I've read that I should enable AHCI mode inside BIOS and set the priority of this SSD onto the first place, but the problem persists.

What may be wrong? My motherboard: P6T7 WS SuperComputer

I've been reading more about the problem on the internet and I found out that my motherboard's chipset (x58) does not have NVMe boot mode support. Does it makes this motherboard too old to boot from this SSD? Is there any way I could just bypass NVMe mode and use AHCI instead f.e.?

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  • You have tried creating partition on the disk then making it primary, correct?
    – Ramhound
    Jun 18, 2015 at 13:39
  • Yeah, tried creating a new partition, formatting it and so on. More info added to the main post.
    – Winged
    Jun 18, 2015 at 14:00
  • I see the original information you provided, I asked if you tried that, because it didn't appear like you did.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 18, 2015 at 14:00
  • Intel has some documentation on the topic : download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/… Hope it helps !
    – user486103
    Aug 20, 2015 at 8:41

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NVMe boot support is required. If your motherboard does not support it, then you won't be able to boot from a NVMe drive.

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  • +1. The Intel 750 PCIe SSDs are only supported on some Z97 and X99 chipsets.
    – armani
    Jun 18, 2015 at 16:37
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    Hmm, I see... Anyway I heard some people said I could boot from this drive through UEFI mode, but this motherboard does not support it even with latest BIOS update. Is it possible to use UEFI mode somehow anyway?
    – Winged
    Jun 22, 2015 at 6:37
  • Setting boot mode to UEFI helps for me. Verified on a DELL R730xd server. Windows 8.1 now can be installed to my PCIE SSD now(Plextor M6e)
    – Jimm Chen
    Jun 29, 2015 at 9:24
  • Follow up: I just built a new workstation with an ASRock X99 Extreme4 motherboard, an Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 CPU, and the add-in-card version of the intel 750 SSD. I installed Windows 10 tech preview on it, and windows recognized the SSD without requiring any additional drivers.
    – William S.
    Jul 7, 2015 at 23:36
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As far as I see it - and I think I have the same problem - Win7 only got a hotfix for native NVMe support. The Windows driver is bad, but that is another issue. The problem is, that you need to find a way to get the NVMe driver as a standalone to be able to recognize the drive during install. The disk is not probably mounted during a Win7 install, cause the installation files don't have the hotfix. You need to install Win first to be able to apply the fix. What you can do is use a Win10 installation file. That one will work for system installation. Hope that made sense... no nativ sorry.

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    Sorry I only now saw, that you in fact went with win10. Another way would be this one: support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2990941#bookmark-prerequisite
    – user489271
    Aug 27, 2015 at 18:53
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    So correct your answer so it applies to Windows 10. If you cannot answer the question, then this answer, should be deleted. Of course this has nothing to do with Windows 10, so its not clear the reason, you even bring it up.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 27, 2015 at 19:00

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