Windows 7 NVMe signed driver madness

Sorry for the late post. Just posting back here to say I finally go this to work. What I did was install those two updates and Windows now loads its own signed NVMe driver and it worked, well, sort of. I still had the Crucial DLL in the system32 folder and as such Windows still complained on boot up. So I removed that DLL from the system32 folder and now Windows boots without complaining and uses the Windows NVMe signed driver. Oddly, the Windows NVMe driver is signed in the year 2006.

I did import the registry file you linked to, but that didn't change anything. Being the computer person I am I verified your registry file with this website for what it was worth. My tools were Notepad++ and DiffMerge. Doing that I found some inconsistencies and if memory serves, your registry file was missing 8 Certs. but had a few that website didn't have and I verified those through Google searching as well. They were recent Certs. though released this past month. There's also this Github Repo but it's not been updated. I was also reading there were very old Certs. that probably shouldn't be installed for security reasons. Without doing some further research on that premise I installed them anyway (for now).

Thanks for the help on this. It has been a real PITA just to get Windows 7 installed on a NVMe despite me installing Windows or Linux time and time again even in VMware, this one was a real PITA for me. I'm probably going to buy NTLite in the near future to A)support development B) It's been quite useful and C) I have some projects in mind that NTLite will work great for. Namely to strip down Windows Starter for a server I want to create.
 
You can try importing the Win-RAID cert (as normally). Then export all of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\ROOT\Certificates] to file. That should capture the WIN-RAID cert along with everything.

Integrate that to a base image, and it should trust Fernando's driver. I was hoping it would work with OP's driver since it's recently signed, but you can't reproduce it unless you have the right PC HW to force a driver load.
 
If I was to ever do this I would have just installed it on a normal drive and cloned it after I got the drive and drivers to work. That way it's installed and you can go through troubleshooting a lot easier.
 
Necrosaro said:
If I was to ever do this I would have just installed it on a normal drive and cloned it after I got the drive and drivers to work. That way it's installed and you can go through troubleshooting a lot easier.
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Yeah, in hindsight now that would have been the best course of action. It was a real learning experience though. To this day I still find clumps of my air under the desk... LOL!
 
the swear jar is full, you have run out of coffee and you smoked so much you sound like tom waits.
 
My apologizes. Forum posts (or writing online in particular) is open to interpretation unlike most verbal communication and with me being banned and/or suspended from other forums in times past for the most frivolous of things I thought it was more or less a knock on my demeanor and aggravation at Windows' dumb idea on certing drivers and making it a bloody hell to try and get a driver to work.

I retract my post and will contact Bosley Hair Club For Men... LOL!
 
The_Pissed_One said:
My apologizes
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Accepted. I have done the cleanups ;)

The_Pissed_One said:
Forum posts (or writing online in particular) is open to interpretation unlike most verbal communication and with me being banned and/or suspended from other forums in times past for the most frivolous of things I thought it was more or less a knock on my demeanor
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Been there, got the t shirt and battle scars.

The_Pissed_One said:
Bosley Hair Club For Men... LOL!
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Kojak Hair Club and i know who Bosley is LOL
 
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