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Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance

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Yash_Shekar
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Dec 15, 2025

Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025 is a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads. Enable Native NVMe today using a registry key after applying October’s latest cumulative update for WS2025!

We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025—a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads. Modern ...
Updated Dec 15, 2025
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jotheman03
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Dec 20, 2025

I enabled this on my home server, a Windows 11 client running on it broke... I needed to enter the Bitlocker recovery key and kept getting a "Critical process died" BSOD on the machine. I cannot do startup repair, have to reset the whole machine :(

I was thinking, can this have something to do with the Deduplication functionality that is turned on on the server?

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    RozinhaK
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    Dec 21, 2025

    I enabled in a Windows 11 Pro and works normal.

    See if NVMe has a proprietary driver and revert to microsoft generic NVMe driver.

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    jotheman03
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    Dec 20, 2025

    It's worse than I thought: All my machines are corrupted (both Windows and Linux)... This is turning into a drama for me, I urge caution for people wanting to try this out. Again, not sure if it is related to the Deduplication, but wanted to share my experience