The technique below is the culmination of a solid week's worth of research, trial and error, and the combination of suggestions from dozens of sources. It should also work as a means to install Win7 onto other systems that use NVMe SSDs for boot drives, although this will likely require different and/or additional drivers. This article will detail the software and steps required to create customized installation media for installing a fresh copy of any version of Windows 7 onto a new Intel Skull Canyon NUC. Intel's SSD forum area is rife with complaints about how Windows can't see it. There are no hardware-specific drivers for it. This is a convoluted, non-intuitive process that requires a bunch of additional software to perform.Īnd let's add yet another layer to the stack: my setup includes an Intel 600p series M.2 SSD. Making matters worse, since Microsoft has only released the NVMe support updates as hotfixes, they have to be injected into a Windows 7 installation disc (or, more specifically, the ISO image for one) so that they'll be invoked during installation. Windows 7 does not support NVMe SSDs without adding hotfixes to the OS, and there's also no USB 3.0 support, so trying to install Windows 7 on latest-gen NUCs usually ends at the language selection screen with no working mouse or keyboard, and if you did manage to get past that the installer wouldn't see the SSD anyway. A lot of people want to put Windows 7 on the latest-gen NUCs, and run into compatibility problems and a frustrating lack of information that will actually result in a working machine.
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