You definitely can, i've done it in the past. I think for some reason however, even if IRST is disabled in BIOS and the NVME drives are not being managed by VMD, if there are other boot partitions on the nvme drive you're trying to install to, or if that drive has a software raid configured on...
Fixed:
Create Windows Installation media on a USB with MBR partition table. I followed the steps on a Mac usingthis guide, but imagine if you just used the official windows media installer on a windows machine that USB stick would work.
You also will need to install the RST drivers if you...
Long story short. I had windows 11 installed on this very same system with 2 2TB NVME drives in Raid-0 Using VMD and intel RST. I decided to switch to arch linux, and disabled RST, and instead left the two drives in their default modes. I installed arch linux on an mdadm (software) raid-0 and...