Solved NVMe missing

NavyLCDR said:

Yes. You need:

Download Intel Drivers and Software

Download new and previously released drivers including support software, bios, utilities, firmware and patches for Intel products.

www.intel.com

You need one of the zip files - depending on whether or not you have VMD enabled.

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Thank you Navy, this solved my issue you're a great technician. To answer someone else's question up there, I know how to use diskpart, fdisk, and about disk partition table initialization. The only thing I don't understand is why both the VMD and non-VMD drivers both appear to work equally. When I install windows and use only the VMD driver, it detects and installs. If I restart and use only the non-VMD, it detects and installs.

Try3 said:

Just in case it is not clear from the other [perfectly correct] responses to your post, you need to take the additional steps described in order to put an IRST driver on your InstallUSB in order to use that browse command to find it.

All the best,
Denis

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Thank you for the redudant comment.

I have posted a consolidation of the guidance from this thread in TenForums [click on the

symbol to see it in situ].

Try3;2447103 said:

Whilst the recent threads I've seen about NVME drives have not specifically mentioned the Bios, I wonder if getting an NMVE driver ready to install during the installation procedure might help you as it helped users in other threads.

Test for possible NVMe missing - NavyLCdr #9 - ElevenForum

Source of necessary IRST driver - NavyLCdr #15 - ElevenForum

You then need to copy the driver to your installation USB and use a modified installation procedure to load it at the correct stage. This is described in
HP PCs - No Drives Can Be Found During Windows 10 Installation (Intel 11th Generation processors) - HP Customer Support

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Please post either in here or in there if I have misunderstood or omitted necessary facts.

All the best,
Denis

Added later - The link to my TenForums post is Coping with an M.2 NVME disk during installation - my post #2 - TenForums

Try3 said:

Just in case it is not clear from the other [perfectly correct] responses to your post, you need to take the additional steps described in order to put an IRST driver on your InstallUSB in order to use that browse command to find it.

All the best,
Denis

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Problem solved by downloading Intel VMD NVMe drivers from website, loading that into USB stick, then loading driver during install screen. Thanks "Try3", and anyone else who suggested loading NVMe drivers. There are other NVMe drivers that can work as well. Why doesn't more official documentation include this information? How is a novice supposed to wipe entire hard drive and install windows from scratch on their own?

2Savage said:

How is a novice supposed to ... install windows from scratch on their own?

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I agree with you. It's appalling.

All the best,
Denis

This information was new to me. Thanks for the thread.

Am I to understand that I will need the Non-VMD drivers on the stick even if I go into BIOS and disable the instances of VMD?

And that VMD (Volume Management Device) is only need to enable RAID or OPTANE functions using the Nvme on the board?

And that with VMD off and Non-VMD driver installed the Nvme will basically be in normal AHCI mode, with no affect on single drive performance?

That is a good question, I don't know the answer to that. I am sorry.

I've been doing some searching and can share some information.

First is that there is very little information. Intel has very little technical data on Volume Management Device design. But from what they have there it would appear that this is the next gen storage drive controller. I suspect that the design is proprietary and they are deliberately keeping that to themselves for now.
There isn't even a Wikipedia page on this yet.

But based on what I could find I will not be disabling VMD on my new board. While we might not understand yet exactly how it does it's thing, just being the new tech is good enough for now for me.
My understanding is that the RST-VMD driver works pretty much the same as the old RST - while it's needed for RAID or OCTANE it is also functional for a standard drive setup on AHCI.
All opinions subject to change!

One important piece of information: Intel specifically says that it the OEM manufacturer has a VMD driver for download you should use that over any Intel driver. OEMs normally customize the generic Intel driver to work with their designs and not using theirs can limit functionality.
The page I read specifically mention using the OEM VMD driver during Windows installation.
That is what I will be doing.