Windows 10: Installing motherboard and ssd drivers after clean install

I did a clean win 10 install following the guide by Brinck forund here on Tenforums.
I have also downloaded the most recent drivers for my motherboard (Asus, B360M-K Prime) from Asus site (chipset, SATA, LAN and Audio) (found here)

I have a few questions regarding the chipset, SATA and SSD drivers that i am hoping you guys could help me with:

1) Under the "chipset driver" section on Asus' site there are two different types of downloads: a) Intel Chipset Driver (~5MB) and b) Management Engine Interface (~100MB).
Do i need both and which do i intstall first?

2) Under the "SATA" driver section there is only one type of download: "Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver software". However, when I unzip this folder there are two folder inside: "Install" and "Driver". The "Driver" folder contains drivers and 64-bit drivers, while the "Install" folder contains SetupRST (installs Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface).
Do i need to install both and do i install the drivers from the "Driver" folder first?

3) I'd like to install the driver for my SSD (Intel SSD 660P 512GB NVMe M.2). I went to Intels site and searched on my product. I think that what i need is "Client NVMe* Microsoft Windows* Drivers for Intel® SSDs" (found here). Here i have two options for my 64-bit OS: "Client-64bit_f6flpy.zip and "Setup_NVME.exe". What is the difference and which one do i need?

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Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Win10 clean install on Samsung SSD 850 EVO

BLUF: SSD is not listed ubder "Where do you want to install Windows?"

Steps Complete:

1. I've create a Win10 bootable install usb.

2. I connect the new Samsung SSD 850 EVO via SATA.

3. I reboot PC and verify SSD is seen by the motherboard/BIOS

4. Begin Win10 install via usb.

5. Get to "Where do you want to install Windows?" and the SSD is not listed

Problems:

1. Samsung does not offer a driver for the 850 on their website

2. Cannot locate driver elsewhere

Unsuccessful Mitigations Steps Attempt:

A. Format & partition SSD via Windows Disk Management, then retried steps 1-5 above....same result

B. Clone existing HHD onto SSD via "Image for Windows" by TeraByte, then verified SSD contents via Windows Explorer....similar result

Can you please offer some advice on locating a driver for a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB drive? Or an alternative method?

Thank you

 

Windows 7 wont install drivers

+1

If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage