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Doing upgrading the drive on my new laptop and Windows setup sees zero disks

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Accepted solution by Tomas Lindqvist — oh ive been there lol extract the pakcage, copy the folder with the .inf, .sys and .cat files to the install USB, then in setup click Load…
  1. Tomas Lund
    @night_shed

    so annoyed rn i wanted to do upgrading the drive on my new laptop. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to the disk selection screen and got this:

    Reboot and Select proper Boot device

    Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

    no drives at all. the BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct model and size. ive remade the USB stick twice. someone mentioned I might need MSI K9N2 Diamond Bios loaded during setup, but Ive never had to do that before and I have no idea which file to point teh installer at. help me before I return a perfectly good SSD. thx in advance!!

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  2. Fenna U.
    @fenna_shader

    Many newer laptops ship with Intel VMD (Volume Management Device) enabled, which hides the NVMe behind a controller that Windows setup has no inbox driver for. u need teh F6 / RST VMD driver from the PC makers support page (often listed as "F6 driver" or "RST driver for Windows setup"). worked for me anyway 🤷

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  3. Tomas Lindqvist
    @tlindqvist_35
    Accepted solution

    oh ive been there lol extract the pakcage, copy the folder with the .inf, .sys and .cat files to the install USB, then in setup click Load driver > Browse and select that folder. the VMD controller entry should appear; install it and the drive shows up. lmk how it goes

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  5. Pia Mori
    @piam161

    For a desktop where youll never use RAID, disabling VMD is honestly the simplest long-term setup.

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