Windows Installer Cant Find My NVMe Drive. Do I Need ASRock M3N78D Bios? (pls help)

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  1. okay, I feel dumb, but I'm stuck at step one.

    trying removing bloatware on my freshly built PC 🙏 windows setup shows no drives. I downloaded M3N78D Bios from ASRock on another computer, but its an EXE, not something teh installer can use. how do I get the right files out of it, and which folder should I point Load driver to? id really like to finish this tonight. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. been there man 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. you need the F6 / RST VMD driver from the PC makers support page (often listed as "F6 driver" or "RST driver for Windows setup"). good luck man!

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  3. Extract the package, 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 conrtoller entry should appear; install it and the drive shows up.

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