![]() I believe that the drivers for these drives can be backported to Windows 7, however, there may be an issue with unsigned drivers (since Windows Installer will most likely refuse the driver since it is unsigned). So from everything that I have gathered about these drives is that they appear to be some sort of internal, soldered on SD Card (at least in my case) or at least treated like one. The file and any others will be included so they can be studied (if sharing these files is not allowed, please do let me know so I can remove them). Looking at the other details, the driver's inf name is disk.inf. Indeed, this is confirmed by going into Computer and seeing the SD Card icon next to the driver. Looking at the properties of the drive in Windows 8 Build 8056, Windows appears to treat it like an SD Card. I do know enough to be able to modify driver inf files to add in processors, but not enough to perform a full scale backport of one. ![]() I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a deep knowledge of drivers. This would indicate that the driver has been present since Windows Vista and is in 7, but we all know that to be false. If one looks at the driver details for the MMC Memory Card under Disk Drives in Device Manager, it will report as being dated on (at least on Build 8056). We would need to "unlock" and backport the generic driver from Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 7. How do we get Windows 7 to install to an eMMC drive? Simply popping in a Windows 8.1 USB and pointing the installer to the folder the driver is in will not work due to it being "locked" to 8.1. If you try and install it, Windows Installer will complain that it can't detect the drive and to install a driver for it by loading it through something like a USB. Windows 7 does not include a generic eMMC driver, and it is unlikely there is a Windows 7 driver for it. Why won't Windows 7 install to an eMMC drive? Some models of the Aspire R3-131T come with an HDD slot as well, but mine does not. It should also be noted that some laptop's that come with an eMMC drive may not come with an HDD or even the SATA connector for such a drive. Windows 8 Build 8056 is currently the earliest known build to include generic eMMC drivers. ![]() This appears it was also present in Windows 8 too, and if you look here, (fbl_grfx_dev1), you'll see it was introduced quite early in 8's development. When I bought this laptop in 2017, it came with Windows 10, but I uninstalled that and successfully put 8.1 on it, suggesting there is a generic eMMC driver within 8.1. If one goes to the Acer driver page for this laptop,, you will see it has support for Windows 8.1 and 10. Came with Windows 10 when I bought this in 2017.Īnyways, this thread is intended to research on how to get eMMC drives to be recognized by Windows 7. To start it off, here are my laptop's specs (which will also be the focal point of this thread):Īcer Aspire R3-131T, Intel Celeron N3060 processor with Cherry Hill (iCHVGM) graphics (supports Windows 7), 32GB eMMC (SSD-Based?) drive, and touchscreen support.
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