I had the same problem with my 960 Pro. Magician just didn't see the drive. But after i ran a benchmark (i think it was CristalDiskMark) it saw the drive! I could reproduce this behaviour every time i tried. But it's not important to install Samsung Magician anyway as it does nothing...

I've been reading through the pages trying to find the answer that I need. Though it does appear to be there... I'm still unable to get my nvme drive to work. I have a new setup with a Samsung 960 Evo 250gb and I'm trying to install windows 7 (64 bit). I've been at this for the last 4 hours but nothing seems to work. I downloaded the files on the first post and I managed to be able to select the files and attempted to install it. It doesn't work. Says that there was no hardware found for the selected drive (It may be another error - at this point I'm seeing double). I am able to select the Evo drive via Bios boot setup.

Has anyone recently installed a 960 evo nvme drive with the file listed on this thread - for Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit ? If so, any tips ?

Edit: I'm running an asus z270 tuf mark 2 but considering this is nvme driver related, my specs aren't going to matter.

Thank you.

Thank you for that clarification. I will give that a try.

I haven't been back to this thread for a while since posting my test results back in NOV-2014: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers (8)
The laptop is still the same, but the SSD was upgraded to SSD 850 EVO 500GB (Samsung Magician 4.9.7 RAPID Mode Enabled) and Win x64 was reinstalled at some time.
Today I was running my hardware drivers update and discovered that my current system runs AMD AHCI v1.2.1.402 (latest W7x64 driver), so it made me curious to see if I can find any speed difference by rolling back to the AMD AHCI v1.2.1.359 again.
Once downgraded the driver and restarted the system, the overall GUI experience improved. I would say everything runs in about ~30-50% faster.
I do agree there will be no big difference for many guys, as their AMD-based system might have a better CPU model or larger RAM. Some users might also have multiple programs running in the tray, which I don't have on my system.
Though, I'm talking about the difference of milliseconds which can be only recognized while working on your PC for long hours and feeling every little change on processing time of your system applications.
In my particular case, I've browsed the multiple windows with many files and sub-folders, then opened few multimedia web sites in Opera, Firefox, Chrome trying to remember its average processing time while running on AHCI v1.2.1.402.
Next, I've downgraded the driver, rebooted the system to re-browse all windows folders and web sites to see the difference. No doubt, everything runs and loads faster with AMD AHCI v1.2.1.359.

Hi,

I have a 2TB Samsung 960 Pro that I am trying to install windows 7 on using the Samsung drivers you have provided here. The problem is that when I load the drivers, I am being told by the installation that the drivers are not singed and as such cannot be used. This is very strange as your blurb says that the drivers provided are Microsoft Certified!

Any help is much appreciated.

@Fernando

Thank for the prompt reply and also for the welcome message!

In answer to your question, yes I am indeed downloading the v2.2.0.1703 WHQL for the 64Bit version of Windows 7, however as mentioned in my original post there seems to be something wrong with their certification as they are promptly rejected by the Windows 7 Installation as "not suitable due to not being signed by Microsoft" according to the Windows Installation process.

Since I needed my laptop ASAP, I have tried the Microsoft NVMe drivers as you have suggested in your reply and installed Windows 7 on my laptop. However the problem is that the drive is not as snappy as it should be with the Microsoft Generic NVMe drivers. Also, Samsung Magician cannot detect the drive after its installation for firmware updates.

The Crystal Disk benchmark is also very different (Lower) on the Microsoft NVMe drivers compared to the people who have run the same benchmark on the 960 Pro with the Samsung drivers online when reviewing the drive.

Any help is much appreciated.
Regards.

@Fernando

That is just the thing, I don't want to use the MS NVMe Drivers!

And as for the Magician software, I agree that it is total crap, but I only need that to update my firmware.

Do you have any clue as to where and how I can get myself a properly signed Samsung Driver? As I mentioned the ones on the first post are not signed and as such are not useful.

Thanks.

Well I was sure that I have downloaded the proper drivers from your first post in this thread. But just to be sure I downloaded again right now and tested them again and still the same result. I tried it both on my laptop and also on two other desktops as well so it is not the issue with my laptop. I also used two different Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit ISO Files just to make sure that there is nothing wring with my ISO files as well.

I assure you that there seems to be something wrong with the Samsung NVMe drivers on thee first post here. You can easily try it yourself and see the error on your own if you don';t believe me.

cheers