No drives found and can't seem to load the driver

Snowfan · Jun 3, 2023

Hi guys first post and thank you all for your help. I'm upgrading a 256 to 2TB ssd on a new Asus 1220p i3 laptop and doing a clean install.

Getting the no drivers message which I know you are familiar with.

I've got the iastore driver and have tried everything I can think of but can't get it to load. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong and really frustrated trying to get this thing working. Set up does not let me see it on my USB 11 download.

Added RST package to USB and also just the driver on the USB which it can't see and neither will load. Thanks for your help and I'm super stumped.

I have pictures but apparently they're too large to load.

FreeBooter · Jun 3, 2023

Where did you get the Windows 11 USB flash drive?

Open the Command Prompt by pressing Shift + F10 from recovery environment, execute bellow commands and if you can post a picture of the commands.

Code:

Diskpart

List disk

Snowfan · Jun 3, 2023

FreeBooter said:
Where did you get the Windows 11 USB flash drive?

Open the Command Prompt by pressing Shift + F10 from recovery environment, execute bellow commands and if you can post a picture of the commands.

Code:

Diskpart List disk

Hi @FreeBooter
I'll try that. USB downloaded from official Microsoft 11.

I'll try to reduce the pixel count from HD to regular pictures and retake them soon so they will load. It's not recovery because it's a new hard drive. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Bios has wifi but stopped at 11 setup. Should I upgrade the bios firmware first?

FreeBooter · Jun 3, 2023

You can delete all partitions from Command Prompt and refresh setup screen to see if the SSD shows also does the SSD detected by BIOS?

Code:

diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

clean

exit

Snowfan · Jun 3, 2023

FreeBooter said:
You can delete all partitions from Command Prompt and refresh setup screen to see if the SSD shows also does the SSD detected by BIOS?

Code:

diskpart list disk select disk 0 clean exit

Yes. Wi-Fi in bios sees the new hard drive but no drives detected during 11 setup. VMD on and off and still no hard drive found during setup.

FreeBooter · Jun 3, 2023

Snowfan said:
Yes. Wi-Fi in bios sees the new hard drive but no drives detected during 11 setup. VMD on and off and still no hard drive found during setup.

Sorry but i cannot help you as you are not following my instructions i have asked no question about Wi-Fi in BIOS.

bobkn · Jun 3, 2023

Snowfan said:
Yes. Wi-Fi in bios sees the new hard drive but no drives detected during 11 setup. VMD on and off and still no hard drive found during setup.

Wi-Fi?

I don't understand. What does wireless networking have to do with upgrading an SSD?

SIW2 · Jun 3, 2023

quite easy to integrate the irst drivers into boot.wim.

mount boot. wim image 2
integrate the drivers
Save the image committing the changes
unmount the image.

A two minute job. Simplest to use dism++

https://github.com/Chuyu-Team/Dism-Multi-language/releases/download/v10.1.1002.2/Dism++10.1.1002.1B.zip

Do Direct Save for this task.

Snowfan · Jun 3, 2023

FreeBooter said:
"also does the SSD detected by BIOS?"

If anyone can offer genuine help I would appreciate it.

Fabler2 · Jun 3, 2023

Have a look here,

[Notebook/AIO] Troubleshooting - How to fix the problem that cannot find drives when installing Windows 11/10 | Official Support | ASUS Global

Try3 · Jun 5, 2023

Snowfan,

I am not sure what problem you are reporting.
Are you saying that you boot successfully from the InstallUSB but, during the clean Windows installation, you reach Step 11 where it reports that it cannot find any disks to install to and offers you a link to Load driver?
Clean Install Windows 11 - ElevenForumTutorials
If so:

Is the disk an M.2 NVMe?
Have you followed the steps given in Coping with an M.2 NVME disk during installation - my post #23 - ElevenForum?

All the best,
Denis

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

Try3 said:
Snowfan,

I am not sure what problem you are reporting.
Are you saying that you boot successfully from the InstallUSB but, during the clean Windows installation, you reach Step 11 where it reports that it cannot find any disks to install to and offers you a link to Load driver?
Clean Install Windows 11 - ElevenForumTutorials
If so:

Is the disk an M.2 NVMe?

Have you followed the steps given in Coping with an M.2 NVME disk during installation - my post #23 - ElevenForum?

All the best,
Denis

Yes, Windows starts install normally but when I get to the "load driver" prompt it does not find any drivers. I tried the whole RST package and just the drivers....and a couple more drivers from Intel, Asus ect. The RST package shows but does not load the driver and the drivers do not show on usb in a folder or saved alone.

I will check out the links above and keep working on it.

The hd is a new 2tb Kingston M.2 2280 NVME initialized and showing 1.8ish unallocated space.

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

bobkn said:
Wi-Fi?

I don't understand. What does wireless networking have to do with upgrading an SSD?

I was just mentioning it, sorry it distracted from topic.

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

FreeBooter said:
You can delete all partitions from Command Prompt and refresh setup screen to see if the SSD shows also does the SSD detected by BIOS?

Code:

diskpart list disk select disk 0 clean exit

Yes. Bios sees SSD. No partitions.

FreeBooter · Jun 5, 2023

We need to see output of below commands open the Command Prompt by pressing Shift + F10 from recovery environment, execute bellow commands and if you can post a picture of the commands output.

Code:

diskpart

list disk

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

Can someone confirm which driver(s) I need and how and where to put it on usb?

Same usb as windows download or a different one?

Try3 · Jun 5, 2023

That's in the link I gave you before.

Denis

Fabler2 · Jun 5, 2023

This video should help. In this case a second USB flash drive was used to install the needed driver.

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

I loaded the IRST drivers on another thumb drive and it worked.

Thank you all for your help.....

Now stopped at another screen with no network showing and can't proceed...

I'm in a hotel in Taos New Mexico with my mobile hotspot on and hotel Wi-Fi on but nothing showing.

I can't post pictures because I get a error message for too large so I'll try to reduce pixel count.

Snowfan · Jun 5, 2023

I tethered my phone to the laptop and it found the network so I'm finished.

Thank you all again for your help.

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