Samsung SSD mzvlv256hchp Will Not Detect
Running ATI2016/6571. I have a new Lenovo Yoga 900 that has a samsung mzvlv256hchp ssd. ATI will not see this drive using the Acronis or Win-PE boot media. I have researched and I am unable to find a driver for this SSD. It appears that it is built into the Intel storage drivers.
I suspect I need to inject the Intel storage drivers into the Win-PE USB I have created. How do I do this?
Second question... why in the world can Acronis not provide the tools that will boot and see these drives?
Thank you.


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Thank you for the quick response. Unfortunatly, this machine's bios is locked from the research I have done (in the sense that it will not allow you to change the raid/AHCI settings). It is a warranty replacement Yogo 900 replacing a Yoga Pro 3. The Pro 3 had the AHCI switch and was no issue. I beleive that Lenovo does not want Linux ran on these Yoga 900 machines since is locking the bios and offering no way to change the settings.
I will look into your DISMGUI info later today. I now have to figure out the driver situation since Lenovo only offers the drivers in an EXE. I might be able to trace the EXE temp folder or I will see if Intel offers anything with the INF files.
Thanks again,
Joe
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Some of the EXE's are just packaged zip files. YOu can try z7ip and see if it can extract the full contents.
Otherwise, doubledriver is a good free tool that can extract drivers from the OS so that you have easy access to them.
What version of the Windows ADK do you have on your machine as well? Windows 10 ADK can be installed on Windows 7/8/8.1 and will give you better driver support out of the box. You can manually download and install from Microsft and then run the WinPE builder in ACronis to get the latest Win10 default drivers out of the OS. If your current OS is less than Windows 10 though, you don't want to take drivers from it and put it in the Windows 10 ADK created WinPE.
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Thank you. All is good. I have it working and the machine has been imaged. I found that the latest Win10 Intel Raid Storage drivers worked. Once I got the INF files into the PE it booted and saw the disk and imaged without issue.
Thank you for your help. Much appreciated.
Now... back to the last part of my original question... Why can't Acronis' PE have these drivers? I am not a PE expert (at one time a did a lot with BART but that was years ago). Seems like Acronis could provide these in the software updates so the PE would handle the commone SSD drives. Also, I think it is crazy that makers, like Lenovo, are now shipping machines with locked BIOS that does not allow you to turn RAID off so you can run LINUX. Enough editorial.
Again, much appreciated.
-Joe
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Hi Joe, I've been advocating for Acronis to have a driver injection method when PE is built - I hope to see it soon, but it's really up to Acronis to implement, but would surely make this easier. None of the backup products provide additional drivers by default - it could have negative behavior on other systems. However, some of the others already offer the ability to scan the system for non Microsfot NIC and RAID drivers and ask if you'd like to include them when the media is being built. In my opinion, Acronis needs to take this approach as well to remain competitive in this particular area. PLEASE submit feedback about this from within the application and let them know what you think too! The more peopel who provide this feedback, the more likely we are to see these changes implemented.
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Hi Joe I seem to be running through the same issue. I downloaded the Intel drivers from this link
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Tec…
Are these same drivers you are using? I tried the 64 bit but it still doesn't see the hard drive.
My yoga 900 has the samsung mzvlv512hcjh drive. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Yochanan - that should be the correct IRST driver. Just make sure to get the version that matches the WinPE you're going to build - 32-bit or 64-bit. Once downloaded, extract teh contents to a folder and then inject those.
If you're not sure about driver injection, using DISMGUI with these instructions should help out:
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Yochanan, that is the driver I used and it worked. My issue was the setup for the boot PE. I continued to have problems. Bobbo_3C0X1 helped and pointed me to some thier tools. A friend of mine directed me to a quick PE builder called MustangePEBuilder (link below). I am sure Bobbo_3C0X1's tools would have worked great but I needed something quick and my friend said this was a quick GUI based builder that would infuse the drivers easily. So, I took that route first. An issue with the Mustange software is that the linked Acronis plugin for 2016 will false hit as malware/virus. So, you have to exception the folder where you download the TI2016.zip and extract it to. I researched this and found it to not be a threat. The other Acronis plugins did not seem to have this same issue.
I installed all of this at the root of C (which I think is default for Mustang). I had to play with the AddDrivers INI file a bit. After about 15 minutes I had a fully working GUI based Win10 PE. Below I have included my INI configuration.
Link: http://www.mechrest.com/plugins/MustangPEBuilder/MustangPEBuilderADK.htm
AddDrivers.ini
[Driver Paths]
driver1=C:\MustangPEBuilder_2_ADK_64_LaunchBar\Drivers\IntelRaid\iaAHCIC.inf
driver2=C:\MustangPEBuilder_2_ADK_64_LaunchBar\Drivers\IntelRaid\iaStorAC.inf
[Driver Folders]
folder1=
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PlugIns.ini
[Plugins]
plugin1=
plugin2=A43\A43Utility.exe
plugin3=PENetCfg\PENetCfg.exe
plugin4=TI2016\TI2016.exe
-Joe
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Interesting thread concerning the Lenovo Yoga machines. As Joe found the only solution available at this point in time in working with laptops running these Samsung M.2 PCIe NVMe drives is by using WinPE or MustangPE and injecting the necessary drivers from Intel.
It is interesting to note that Lenovo has chosen to lock the SATA switching mode of their bios. I am not surprised by this but interesting that they went that route. Lenovo traditionally has been the most proprietary laptop maker on the market so to see them lock out the capability from their machines is not a surprise.
As information, I have been doing a good bit of research on the implementatikon of these M.2 drives and the setup of these devices in PC's. I have come to the conclusion that having the SATA mode set to RAID in the machine bios forces Windows to use the RAID driver found in the driver .inf file for the installed M.2 device. I believe this to be necessary so that the performance improvements of the NVMe standard can be realized as the AHCI version of the driver is not capable of doing so. This is because of latency factors inherent in the SATA III interface for which the AHCI standard was designed for.
The creation of a WinPE or MustangPE media disk with a plugin True Image app and injected Intel drivers is the only option for working with these devices in the current laptop offerings from manufacturers at present. My only suggestion here is that you store your backup images on an external hard drive USB attached so that you have easy access to them. Avoid network storage if at all possible as using a networked location with either of these boot medias brings a new set of problems in accessing them when needed.
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