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    Any has Samsung MZ7LN256HCHP SSD Driver (LG Gram 15)?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ahfei, Apr 1, 2016.

  1. ahfei

    ahfei Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe its M.2 SATA3. Just bought a LG Gram 15 without OS from Korea and now trying to install windows 7 but stuck at finding driver stage so installation cannot see the SSD.

    Anyone has similar model (128GB, 512GB etc) driver so I can try?

    Sorry its
    MZNLN256HCHP PM871 instead

    Cant seems to change the title
     
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    ahfei, Apr 1, 2016
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    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Does a Win10 install 'see' the SSD? You may want to try digging into that Win10 installer for that driver if so...
     
    tilleroftheearth, Apr 2, 2016
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    ahfei Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just downloaded the W10 ISO but dont know where it is. I suspect W7 and W10 will see differently, hopefully
     
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    First, I would test to see that the Win10 installer actually sees the drive...

    If it does, then we can dig into getting the drivers off of it.
     
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    ahfei Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, yes W10 does see the drives. Any idea where is the driver in the windows installation files? Want to take it out and put it in the HDD that the BIOS can see during W7 installation
     
    ahfei, Apr 3, 2016
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    I think you need the standard Intel F6 SATA driver. This should work or the versions here, while mentioning RAID, might well include the basic SATA driver.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Apr 3, 2016
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    Now that I installed W10, when I restart, the screen will stuck at somekind of CMD which comes from one of LG laptop partition...I have no knowledge in this kind of command prompt. The partition X cannot be seen from disk management tool.

    Doing some info search reveal that this is some kind of Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) and I have no idea how to get into my Windows 10. If I just format the whole SSD will this WPE thing be gone?

    Update: Deleted the other partitions. Now no prob entering Windows 10.
     

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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    @ahfei you'd better overprovision that SSD by at least 10%.
     
    Starlight5, Apr 4, 2016
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