windows 7 32 bit copy to new 12th gen pc with NVME and missing drivers

[cekcons]

I have a 3 third gen i5 desktop. I wanted to replace with 12th gen i5 with nvme desktop.

PC has win 7 32 bit and tons of apps that is painful to reinstall and reconfigure.

So i cloned the drive to nvme. But by ofcourse win 7 wouldnt boot straight. I knew that but some cmd commands should fix it but nvme driver is missing so when it tries to boot it reboots. I can enter recovery.

 

In recovery usb drivers also missing but ps2 keyboard works so yey. I checked via diskpart and no disk found.

I back to old pc tried to find drivers and i did found some random windows updates about nvme drivers but they were 64 bit. So i searched again for 32 bit and found some (not sure if its right or not (?)).

I tried to update win 7 to 10 then clone it but win 10 upgrade gives me some errror about "missing mount" or something like that at final and reverts.

I did update to win 8 but that deleted apps (my files and photos here - apps nope).

 

So anyone got any tech tips for this win7 ? maybe some 32 bit drivers ? or some magical software that adds drivers ?

Thanks.

[OhYou_]

try cloning it again and then boot into safe mode.
for windows 10 if you clone from sata to nvme, you have to boot to safemode first and it will automatically repair the disk drivers for nvme to work.
no idea if this is the case on 7.

Barring that, you will have to successfully upgrade to 10 before trying.
Try an early build of win10, a 2019 or so build.
as for windows 8, that should have not deleted your apps, are you sure you used a x86 installer? if you try to upgrade using a x64 installer, i think it would delete many things that are x86 for it to work.

[cekcons]

2 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

try cloning it again and then boot into safe mode.
for windows 10 if you clone from sata to nvme, you have to boot to safemode first and it will automatically repair the disk drivers for nvme to work.
no idea if this is the case on 7.

Barring that, you will have to successfully upgrade to 10 before trying.
Try an early build of win10, a 2019 or so build.
as for windows 8, that should have not deleted your apps, are you sure you used a x86 installer? if you try to upgrade using a x64 installer, i think it would delete many things that are x86 for it to work.

Thanks for reply kind sir !


I can not boot to win7 safe mode only recovery.

 

I will try early win10 - I have OG win 10 drivers.

 

For win8 . Yes I did use win 8.1 x86. And I did upgrade in OS not in bios.

[jaslion]

make it a vm. use disk 2 vhd and call it good. Then run the vm (in like virtualbox or soemthing) for the software you need. Use the 12th gen desktop then as normal on a modern os on its own. 

 

There is no way to get this working on the hardware itself. The new drivers will NEVER work on windows 7. They literally cannot understand it. It's already a miracle recovery even opens.

 

 

it's been 5 years since eol. It's time to move on or properly virtualize it. This is eventually gonna stop working as in on hardware permanently. So best to at least make a vm and have a copy saved for whenever windows 7 eventually bricks itself or inevitably gets infected by something if you leave it on the internet.

 

 

 

 

 

[thrasher_565]

w7 dose not have nvme driver there was a way to slip them in the install but i even got it to work.