I'm trying to install Windows (tried and failed both 10 and 11) on a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ITL6. Neither Windows installer recognises any storage drives. I've tried both with and without Intel VMD enabled in BIOS, to no avail.
With Intel VMD enabled, Windows suggests the "Intel RST VMD Controller 9A0B" driver but, after installing it, the installer returns an error saying "No new device drivers were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, then click OK.".
I have checked the image that I previously flashed to the USB drive when I used gnome-disk-utility and the integrity check passed for Windows 11. This is the last image that I flashed, so I couldn't check the Windows 10 one. This also means that the Windows 11 image that I downloaded from Microsoft's servers here -us/software-download/windows11 contains all the files that's expected of it.
However, as previously recommended, we suggest you try creating the installer with another tool to discard that the root cause is how was being created. We downloaded the OS image, and created the installer with Rufus and it doesn't cause any issues.
I understand that you're keen on me trying Rufus, however, I couldn't find any versions which work on Linux. Given that I can only install Linux (currently Ubundu 23.04), Rufus is a no-go. In order to use Rufus, I'd need to install Windows, first, which is the main issue here.
Please be aware that we provide an Intel RST generic driver and Computer Manufacturers make customizations to their systems, including driver software hence we recommend you check this issue with your Computer Manufacturer or Microsoft to know why is still asking for the drivers when they have been installed already. Because, as previously mentioned, we downloaded an OS image and installed it normally in an Intel system without problems.
You can carry out this procedure with both Linux and Windows, though I don't know how to extract .exe file contents in a folder on Linux. You can search online how to do that.
Go to the Asus Website, from there, download the Intel RST drivers for your exact device name/model and windows 11. If you can't find one explicitly mentioning both your device's name/model and Windows 11, then you can try searching both the things together on google e.g. Asus IRST Drivers Windows 11 for BlablaBook/BlablaPad 6 11tWL5JW. If there still isn't anything on the Asus website satisfying both your wants together then just download your model's general drivers and if even they aren't available then as a last resort download the ones for 11th gen+.
Now run the driver file and don't 'Install' it, instead if there is an option of 'Extract Only', you can even directly extract to the rufus created bootable usb, just make sure not to overwrite anything. For linux, instead of ventoy use woeusb cli method. Now back to windows, if there was no 'Extract Only' option, then close the installer and open the windows powershell as administrator and run these commands:
Command 1: cd path to where your driver.exe is stored, you can copy it from its Properties
Command 2: ./driver file name -extractdrivers blablabla
Once you have placed the drivers extracted folder into your bootable usb. Load into your bios, enable VMD and then boot into your windows installation usb. When you click on 'Customized Install', Click on 'Load Drivers', now find the extracted folder, go to its subfolder and click on 'Open'. You will now see 1 or 2 .inf extension driver VMD files. If there is 1, just use it. If there are 2, then for Windows 11 you need the one that has 19 in it. The other one which has 18 in it is recommended for Windows 10.
Now you can install and use Windows 11 with Asus VMD. Boom.
1. lack of an archive: no Windows version is able to work, but both Intel and the manufacturer provide Windows executable files exclusively instead of archives. To install the Windows drivers, customers must first have Windows installed, which makes the point moot. @Jocelyn_Intel you should really provide archived downloads instead of .exe files, because Windows doesn't run in the first place, only other operating systems do.
3. @Jocelyn_Intel makes the assumption that the operating system's installation media (SD card, USB drive, CD ROM) is incorrectly copied, in spite of the customer stating otherwise, and insists that you, the end user, are the problem, not Intel nor the manufacturer. My screenshots should be evidence enough that the installation media works. Even if the OS installation media was somehow corrupted, we're discussing the inability to install drivers found on a separate drive, not on the OS installation media itself. It feels like Intel's customer support isn't able to go off script in spite of end users having a separate problem. After reading some other replies in this forum, it looks like this is Intel's "have you tried turning it off and on again?" standard customer support message. Intel employees just follow the script, unable to comprehend what the end user's problem actually is, standard first line of support.
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1. You cannot use offical Microsoft .iso to USB program - it does not create bootable pendrive for UEFI bios, the offical Windows downloader have an option to create bootable USB from downloaded .iso, but it also isnt capable of doing so.
You have to create bootable ISO using Rufus software (simpy type rufus into google or LINK), then all you have to do is to make sure you selected GPT partition scheme for your bootable usb and FAT32 filesystem.
The secret to getting Windows 10 on this device is to boot with an OTG USB adapter. USB from the keyboard doesn't work. I pulled my hair out for quite a while before I tried an OTG micro USB adapter directly in the tablet and not standard USB in the keyboard port. Still need to use RUFUS to create a GPT patirion scheme for UEFI computer, formatted for FAT32 along with a 32-bit version of Windows 10.
I have an Acer aspire switch 10 notebook, and was in the process of setting it up when I was called away to put out a fire. I set a temporary pw just before shutting it down. You guessed it. I forgot or miss typed the pw, and now have no access to the unit. There is no data on the unit yet.
The suggestion to use an OTG micro USB adapter directly in the tablet rather than a standard USB in the keyboard USB port may be the ticket, but how am I to know at this point. How can I access the EFI BIOS without logging on?
This is NOT correct info. Who in their right minds thinks that Windows' own installation media creator cannot create the proper media to install their own software. That's just idiotic. HERE is the correct info:
After you hose your system and want to put it back, good luck with that. I can point you a direction on this but I haven't successfully done it yet myself, so I don't even say it is the 'right' direction. I wiped my partitions, and it's a BAD IDEA at this point in Win10 developement IMHO. Anyways, 8.1 with Bing is a different license than 8.1. You cannot DL 8.1 with Bing in any shape or form from MS. And your embedded key will not activate ANYTHING on the list in MS media creator. There is ONE guy who has UL the factory image as a *****. It's the UK version, but it works and you can change the lanuage pack afterwards (I think. it wasn't annoying enough for me to try it yet) I couldn't seem to get RUFUS to create a UEFI from the guy's image. My solution was to use MS Media Tool to DL and create a 32bit, 8.1 usb drive. Once I verified it would indeed boot the machine, I then deleted all VISIBLE files from it and replaced them with the files from the UK ISO. DO NOT FORMAT. The whole point is to have the hidden system files and MBR intact. Just delete and then copy paste. At this point you should be able to boot and install windows. Then go DL the Master Installer from acer and it'll install MOST of the drivers. I still cannot get my built in sound to work again. Anybody that does, help would be much appreciated.
I had problem, with Master installer, the "Setup not working" but you can browse folder in this zip (about 200MB) file and you can install each driver singly (step by step). In my case this works in 100%.
I am currently having this problem where I have no OS because mine's broken on Windows 8.1, I am trying to put other operating systems on it so that I can dual boot with Windows 8.1 or 10 at least, or vista/7. What happened was: I cannot boot from my flash drive, there is no legacy boot vs uefi, and I cannot boot my current operating system from the SD card, nor can I boot it from the 32gb flash drive that I have (both things are 32gb).
Try pressing F2 right when your system starts up and keep tapping it until your bios comes up. Then, rearrange the order of the systems booting from as follows: USB/CD, HDD, Windows Bootloader (something like that name will do), & Network.
Since I am one of many kings of hardware in my area, if your computer is starting up, hardware isn't the issue; with that being said, you should go through these steps: plug the flash-drive in (stay in your bios), turn safe boot off (something synonymous will do), go change your bootloader options to accepting the format of the distro you are trying to flash, and voila, you have a working USB boot.
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