Custom recovery partition asking for driver

Hello, I did a clean install of Windows 11 today and fully updated it, Installed all my drivers and desired applications.
Then I booted back to the install media and did "Shift + F10" to get a command line up.
Then I entered "Diskpart" and did "List vol" to list the volumes, I selected my C:\ drive with "Select vol 3"
Then I assigned this volume the letter I for input with "Assign letter=I"
I then selected a storage volume with "Select vol 5" and assigned this with the letter O for output "Assign letter=O"
I then exited Diskpart and used Dism to create a "Backup.wim" file of my C:\ drive with the following command


Then I restarted my machine back to Windows.
These steps were all sucessful and I ended up with a 25gb "Backup.wim" file on my storage drive.
Then I created a 30gb partition on this drive after my C:\ partition, I called it "Recovery"
I formatted it as NTFS and assigned the drive letter R.
Then on this new "Recovery" partition I copied the contents of my Windows 11 Install USB.
After copying was complete I navigated to "R:\sources" and deleted "Install.wim".
Then I copied over my "Backup.wim" to "R:\sources" and renamed it to "Install.wim"

Ok so this is the setup and here comes the issue.
When I boot the PC I hit F12 and get into my motherboards boot menu. I can then boot into my recovery partition fine.
But at the start of setup it says "Install driver to show hardware" I don't understand why. It is a copy of the orignal Windows 11 install media from USB that worked fine and had no driver error, It's also loading from a partition on the drive I want to install to so it can see the drive and partitons. I tried getting the Raid driver from my Motherboards support page, and putting it on a USB stick but this doesn't seem to work. Can anyone give me some advice or point me in the right direction. I used this method in the past on Windows 7 and Windows 10 without issue.

Kind Regards jse

WinPE Setup for 24H2 (and later) defaults an "upgrade" scenario even on a clean disk install. You probably can't label that volume as "Recovery" because that's where Setup expects to find an actual WinRE volume.

I would try one of two things:
- Don't rename R: as Recovery
- When running Setup, on the Select setup option screen select "Previous version of Setup" .

garlin said:

WinPE Setup for 24H2 (and later) defaults an "upgrade" scenario even on a clean disk install. You probably can't label that volume as "Recovery" because that's where Setup expects to find an actual WinRE volume.

I would try one of two things:
- Don't rename R: as Recovery
- When running Setup, on the Select setup option screen select "Previous version of Setup" .

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Thank you for your reply. I reformatted my R: partition and gave it the name "Restore"
I also reran my dism command and changed the names and descriptions from "Recovery" to "Restore"


But this still results in the "Install driver to show hardware" seen in my initial post. I am unable to try "Previous version of Setup" as the driver error is the first thing that appears when booting from the "Restore" partition. Do you have any other ideas I can try?
-jse

Are you booting from USB? boot.wim has its own driver set, and that's the one that can't see any disks because it's missing key driver support.

garlin said:

Are you booting from USB? boot.wim has its own driver set, and that's the one that can't see any disks because it's missing key driver support.

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No, I copied all the files from the USB to my R:\ partition and replaced the stock install.wim with my image.
And then have been trying to boot from this partition. When I did the initial install it was from USB and it
worked fine without any issues.

I am confused now though, when I do boot from the USB install, are you saying that doesn't use boot.wim?
Where does it get the sata/ahci or nvme drivers from in that instance?