Since when do W10 and W11 installation USBs require SATA drivers to install?

[Real_Smoky]

I swear, I think something happened with the official Windows images. Never have I needed to load SATA drivers for any mainboard with my Windows 10 installation USB, but since I updated the USB to the newest image a couple weeks ago, so many mainboards refused to recognize SATA SSDs.
 

I am of course talking about the official way to install Windows 10, using the Media Creation Tool etc.
 

My solution seems weird, but I made an installer with the UK version and for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, and since then, the issue is gone.
 

I also see a lot more Reddit posts about this issue.
 

Can someone explain to me what is going on?

[Tetras]

Used to see this sometimes with third party controllers or boards that (for whatever reason) default to RAID mode. Without knowing the age of the PC involved can't say if that's relevant.

[jaslion]

Depends. Lots of systems default to raid mode instead of ahci and then its needed. Seems to be a trend with SI's these past few years

[Egon3]

10 hours ago, Tetras said:

Used to see this sometimes with third party controllers or boards that (for whatever reason) default to RAID mode. Without knowing the age of the PC involved can't say if that's relevant.

 

10 hours ago, jaslion said:

Depends. Lots of systems default to raid mode instead of ahci and then its needed. Seems to be a trend with SI's these past few years

I've definitely seen this randomly with Dell PCs since like 2019 at least. At my org our imaging process would take a shit with some models and switching to AHCI would resolve.

[jaslion]

5 hours ago, Egon3 said:

 

I've definitely seen this randomly with Dell PCs since like 2019 at least. At my org our imaging process would take a shit with some models and switching to AHCI would resolve.

Oh yeah dell is infamous for it. Super annoying.