Usb Drive Not Detected Windows 11

[Rebecca Donnelly]

Iam trying to dual boot Zorin along with Windows 10. During the installation process, I am given the option to install alongside Windows, but the dropdown menu to choose a drive doesn't give me the option to select my C: drive, and installing it on a separate drive would not give Windows the option to boot into Zorin. I have fast startup off. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Make sure bitlocker is off, turn off fast boot in Windows as well as secure boot in your Bios. Go into windows and use the partition manager in Windows and create an empty partition there. You should also do a fix disk in Windows after you do this.

I have a HP Envy 4 - 1046tx Ultrabook and the operating system is Windows 8.1 64-bit. While downgrading to Windows 7 64 bit I was unable to find the hard drives. In the installation screen it showed me "No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation.".

I downloaded all the versions (from latest to the oldest) of Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and tried installing them one by one but they didn't work and still the hard drives aren't visible. But if I use a Windows 8 installation disc and install the driver the hard drives are visible.

I tried these steps a lot. But, this didn't work for me. Might work for others. I am staying with Windows 8.1 for a while and I will continue finding some other ways. If I find the solution will immediately post the solution in this thread. Thanks to Paul_Tikkanen for helping me!

Thanks for replying.

I have already tried installing all the versions of Intel Rapid Storage Technology Drivers both 32-bit and 64-bit (from latest version to the most oldest version) the compatible driver shows up, I tried installing it too but, it didn't work. Is there any other way to solve this?

So do you want me to slipstream an Windows XP disc, burn it and install XP first and then do you want me to install Windows 7? Will this work? I haven't tried this ever, I read an article yesterday about slipstreaming XP disc with nlite but that was not clear enough so, I skipped it.

This is the first time am also failing in installing an operating system. When I was about to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro I preferred for a clean install, the same problem occurred and I used the SATA drivers you mentioned and it detected the drives.

I did the same thing you did...knew the exact name of the sata controller and tried to check the box to only include the compatible driver, and manually tried to install the driver I knew to be the correct one. NADA!

I have attached the drivers you need to slipstream because the ones in the document do not include the Series 7 ahci or RAID drivers you need (I don't know whether your model uses the AHCI or RAID driver).

But I assume you do since hopefully you looked in the device manager either under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers category (if AHCI) or in the Storage Controllers category (if RAID) to determine the exact name of the sata controller you need.

Whenever I check the compatible drivers option and search for the drivers the compatible driver that appears is Intel Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller(iaStor). This is RAID right?

In between, I have another doubt. In Step 5, while installing Windows 7, will the same screen (the screen asking for SATA drivers) appear again? If it appears, should I use the same driver you have provided me (XP32) or am I supposed to use the latest version of Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver?

I have been trying to install Windows 10 via a bootable USB on my Mac Book Pro (2016 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6) for some time now, but I continue to run into issues. The USB boots up just fine and allows me to get to the part of the Windows installation where I am asked to select which disk to install the OS onto. The issue, I am running into, is no disks are displayed. I used the Boot Camp Assistant to download the WindowsSupport directory and then added this directory to the USB drive. While the WindowsSupport directory does contain an AppleSSD64 driver in a subdirectory, the driver does not appear to function or allow the OS to detect the drive. I am running into much the same problem as detailed at Apple Support Communities.

The drive is 256 GB total in size and I have a windows partition formatted to exFat to try to allow the installer to detect it. I also manually used fdisk to ensure a hybrid MBR partition scheme is not used, as detailed here. Despite all of my efforts, I cannot get the installer to recognize my computers hard drive. I have downloaded the Windows 10 ISO repeatedly from Microsoft and I am sure it is not corrupt. I do not have any idea what is going on.

The end goal of this process is to get Windows only running on my Mac, I do not want a macOS partition due to the limited hard drive space available, which is why I am attempting to install the whole thing from a bootable USB instead of employing the Boot Camp Assistant.

You are suppose to copy the contents of the WindowsSupport folder to the root folder of the flash drive containing the Windows 10 installation files. The image shows the WindowsSupport folder was copied instead, which is incorrect.

A Windows installation can fail if the wrong Window Support Software is being use. The best way to insure you are using the correct Windows Support Software is to use the Boot Camp Assistant installed on the same Mac that is going to run Windows 10. There is a option on the Boot Camp Assistant menu bar for downloading the Window Support Software. I should point out this is not the only way to acquire the Windows Support Software.

High Sierra and newer versions of macOS no longer hybrid partition a drive when creating a ExFAT partition. Since you only want Windows on your Mac, then you can use the USB Windows installer to erase your entire drive before installing Windows. This would make any previous hybrid partitioning irrelevant anyway.

I'm installing the OS and driver from a USB key. It loads windows setup and detects no disks. No biggie, I point it to where I saved the RAID drivers on the USB key, but then still no luck, it's not detecting any disks. The RAID webbios sees the disks just fine.

edit: I am extracting drivers from the downloaded driver EXE file and putting them on the thumb drive. I'm certain it's the correct driver- when I boot into webbios for the raid controller it lists itself as "IBM ServeRAID-MR10k SAS/SATA Controller", and the driver shows up in windows as the exact same.

The Problem seems not to be restricted to the RAID Controller (MR10 in my 3850M2): I tried two Adapted SAS Controller in this Server and also two QLOGIC SAN Controller, all Show no disks during Setup.

So i recently bought my dad new PC parts and today we finally had the time to start the installation of Windows 11. Everything was fine till the point where we had to decide on which Drive we wanted to install Win11 and the Setup showing that no drives were detected.

The only drive currently installed is a NVMe one (for safety and ease of install) which to work needs a fitting driver - Intel RST, but here is were the problems gets even worse, as we bought a brand new 14th gen CPU and Intel RST currently has no version for 14th gen CPUs (at least i didnt find one).

Secondly, NVMe requires that you use UEFI boot; you cannot use Legacy. Make sure you boot the Windows installer in UEFI mode and, during the Windows installation, make sure that you delete all existing partitions on the System drive (to ensure GPT partition table written to drive).

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I want to install 64bit Ubuntu on my PC which is already running Windows 10. The problem is, Ubuntu installer is neither detecting the windows installation nor the partitions I've made on my hard disk using windows. The installer shows an empty hard disk (no partitions) where I can install Ubuntu. Im afraid if I continue to install I might break the existing partitions and lose my files.But the partition manager "Gparted" is showing all the existing partitions correctly. Only the installer is not able to detect the partitions. Is this issue occurring because I'm running Windows in legacy mode?

I took the following steps before trying to install Ubuntu:

Your disk's one primary partition (/dev/sda1) resides entirely within your extended partition (/dev/sda2). This is illegal. This invalid layout was probably created by the Windows partitioning tools, which often do this sort of thing with disks that have extended and logical partitions.

Also, although you note that UEFI boot is specified in your firmware, your disk layout clearly indicates a BIOS-mode installation of Windows. When dual-booting, it's almost always best to ensure that both OSes boot in the same mode, so you should install Ubuntu in BIOS mode. Note that the boot mode (BIOS/CSM/legacy vs. EFI/UEFI) specified in the firmware is often interpreted as more of a suggestion than a command, which is why you can have a BIOS-mode boot even when you've set EFI-mode booting in the firmware.

As an alternative to some of this, you might consider converting Windows to boot in EFI mode, as described in this blog post. With Windows booting in EFI mode from a GPT disk, you needn't be concerned with primary/extended/logical partition issues, since GPT doesn't recognize that distinction. It's usually easier to ensure a consistent EFI-mode boot in a dual-boot configuration than to set up both OSes in BIOS mode, too. (See this page of mine for more on this subject.) If you go this route, it's probably safest to fix the current disk setup with FixParts as a first step; however, if you put off resizing partitions until after the MBR-to-GPT configuration, FixParts will become unnecessary.

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