As a more than 9-year-old operating system (OS), Windows 7 does not have native support for NVMe drives.īased on different motherboards you use, you will meet two kinds of problems when you try to install Windows 7 on NVMe SSD. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) is a communications interface/protocol developed especially for SSDs, which is regarded as the future of SSDs. Why is Windows 7 installation not showing my NVMe drive?