No Drives Found

[Ghost1209]

So, I just completed building a PC and I am installing windows 11 right now. As I got to the screen of selecting the drive to install windows into, it just gives an error message saying no drives found while I am sure that I have put in the m.2 and the sata drive properly. Can anyone help please quickly?

[iceflower701]

if the drives are new, maybe you haven’t partitioned them as drives yet. I’m pretty sure you can do that while trying to install windows from the flash drive by opening up a power shell window during the windows install process. Otherwise, check to see that the drives actually do work, maybe by installing them in another computer. I forget if the bios will show if the drives are plugged in or not if they haven’t been instantiated yet, but you can probably check that too. The last resort I would take if all else fails is to flash the mobo with an updated bios. That’s worked for me once when a gpu turned on, but was not recognized, and maybe the same is happening with your drives.

[Haswellx86]

@Ghost1209

 

It is odd that Windows didn't pick up your drive. Normally the installer has the required drivers to communicate with any sort of drive. What drive do you have? Did you make sure that it works properly? And for the drivers, I believe you have to choose the driver file and make Windows load it. It will give a prompt to check for drivers and you navigate yo your driver file. Note that manually giving Windows the driver setup INF file is going to be tricky because first of all, you need to give it the INF file instead of the regular .exe setup program, so you must have extracted the setup file beforehand (I mean you can extract it through cmd in the Windows installer).

 

Also look for BIOS updates, it may help.

[Ghost1209]

1 minute ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

@Ghost1209

 

It is odd that Windows didn't pick up your drive. Normally the installer has the required drivers to communicate with any sort of drive. What drive do you have? Did you make sure that it works properly? And for the drivers, I believe you have to choose the driver file and make Windows load it. It will give a prompt to check for drivers and you navigate yo your driver file. Note that manually giving Windows the driver setup INF file is going to be tricky because first of all, you need to give it the INF file instead of the regular .exe setup program, so you must have extracted the setup file beforehand (I mean you can extract it through cmd in the Windows installer).

Sure let me try

[Ghost1209]

Quick Update.

 

The problem was related to Intel Storage Drivers. It is fixed now and windows is installed already.