Intel 760p series, Pro 7600p series Installation Manual

Intel® Solid State Drive 760p and Pro 7600p Series

Installation Guide

January 2018

Order Number: 337025-001US

Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drive 760p and Pro 7600p Series

Revision Number

Description

Revision Date

001

 Initial release

January 2018

Ordering Information

Contact your local Intel sales representative for ordering information.

Revision History

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Contents

Revision History .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

1 Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

2 System Requirements .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Software ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.1.1 Determining Compatibility .............................................................................................................................................. 5

2.1.2 UEFI BIOS Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.1.3 Operating System Compatibility .................................................................................................................................. 6

2.2 Hardware .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

2.2.1 Hardware Installation ......................................................................................................................................................... 6

3 UEFI Configuration and Setup ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7

3.1 Enabling the Compatibility Support ............................................................................................................................................ 7

4 Windows Install Process .................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

4.1 Windows 8* and Windows 10* ...................................................................................................................................................... 8

4.2 Windows 7* ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

4.2.1 USB 3.0 Driver Inject ....................................................................................................................................................... 10

5 Installation System Confirmation .............................................................................................................................................................. 12

Tables

Table 1: Terminology .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Table 2: References ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Table 3: Windows Compatibility ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6

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Abbreviation Term

Definition

CSM

Compatibility Support Module

A UEFI firmware feature that enables legacy BIOS-style
booting by emulating a BIOS environment.

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express

The next-generation specification used to access SSDs
through the PCI Express* bus.

PCIe

Peripheral Component
Interconnect Express

A standard connection found on most systems that
supports the high speed of the NVMe SSD.

UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface

A specification for system firmware, meant to replace
legacy BIOS, that provides software layer between the
operating system and the system firmware.

Document

Location

NVMe Specification 1.3

http://nvmexpress.org/resources/specifications/

UEFI Specification

http://uefi.org/specifications

1 Overview

This guide describes how to install the Windows* operating system into the Intel® SSD 760p Series or Intel® SSD
Pro 7600p Series, as a bootable medium in the computing platform.

Note: Datacenter usage, workloads or environments are not supported and will invalidate the warranty for Client
Intel® SSD’s.

The information in this document is intended to assist in the setup and preparation of the Intel® Optane™ SSD as
the primary boot device, not a secondary storage device.

The Intel® SSD 7 Series utilizes the PCIe* NVMe* interface. NVMe is a scalable non-volatile memory host interface
that can help increase efficiency and reduce latency, while delivering high speed access to storage media
connected through the PCIe bus, thus resulting in increased overall bandwidth. This high bandwidth bus
technology is a data transport feature that has become an industry standard for a wide range of motherboard
vendors today.

Table 1: Terminology

Table 2: References

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