Thanks for the video. You're the only person I've seen that's actually showing the file that you need to download, everyone else is like "you find it on intel"

Thank you so much! They changed the procedure slightly because you can no longer download just that file. You have download the setupRST.exe then you have to use the terminal to extract it by copying ./SetupRST.exe -extractdrivers SetupRST_extracted into termial/powershell (not command prompt) once you do that it extracts it and then you put those extracted files on the usb. when you select browse you have to click through all the folders and I believe its called vmd select that one and it will appear as the selected drive you do that it installs and shows all the drives! First intel build and this was beyond annoying I spent all day trying to figure this out.

thanks for the info. For the most part, your video helped me. 2 additional notes; I had to actually pick the 3rd Intel Rapid Storage zip file cause my DELL laptop has an INTEL processor (the 2nd one is for non-Intel). Once I used this one and extracted it to a USB drive, all was good. Also, while all my drives showed up, they were all unavailable & locked at first cause of bitlocker. In order to bypass this, I basically had to delete ALL partitions (5 of them). Since I was doing a total clean install and didn't have any data to worry about, this was not a problem for me. Just keep this in mind too. Again, thanks for the info

This video helped me a lot, just so nobody makes the same stupid mistake I did, remember to EXTRACT ALL from the Intel download onto the UBS boot drive, otherwise it won't work. Thanks!

Just to clarify, you want to download the VMD driver (not the non-VMD driver). I have only come across this problem with 11th gen laptop CPU's on all brands (HP/Dell/Lenovo/Acer). 10th gen laptop CPU's and earlier don't have this problem. Also, 11th gen desktop CPU's don't have this problem either.

It would help if Windows had all these drivers in its install software. Too little, too late at Microsoft.

Sir i been fighting with my hp laptop putting a new ssd in and i couldn't get the drive to pop up. I been trying crazy stuff that i should be messing with. You video fixed it. Out of the 100 vids i watched you was the only one that worked

The idiots from Intel removed the non vdm option... need to find it somewhere else. Great video thanks for the help !!

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! it worked for me and saved me the trip to the computer shop!!

Thanks Dale, you are always ready to help!!

Thank you so much. I was having trouble trying to get windows 10 back on a system for my mother. She got so adjusted to 10 & didn't want to stick with 11.

If only you were a day earlier with this video, i would have saved myself 20 minutes of finding a fix on random yt channels

Just bought soft soft! So excited to get started!!

I simply disabled "VMD controller" in the BIOS and it solved the problem. Just make sure you are using an NVME. It did not work with a SATA M.2 Drive.

Love you! :) Saved my day as well. Thank you for the help and happy holidays!

The same page comes up but only the download setup is available to click... not the second or 3rd

Thank you so much it worked I have been trying to fix it for ages and was getting to the point of throwing it out till I found this vid thank you

hello, can you please upload the folder to a drive so we can access it because we no longer find the zip folder in the given link.

For those of you that this didn’t work, you have to disable VMD on your bios. How you do this is you click control+S on your bios

Thank you bro. I can't thank you enough. I was having trouble setting my laptop up. I've been thinking if I would need to get a new hard drive lol. Thanks again!!!

I tried to use that driver from intel but somehow it not work (could of been me). I went to laptop maker (Dell) and downloaded the Intel RST driver for my laptop and it still wasn't loading. I was naïve enough to think it would automatically find it in folder... NOT... Then I went through the whole folder and found the vmd driver, clicked on that and wala - problem was solved. Thanx Dale!!!

Thank You so much. Many Many Thanks. Dear. 🥰

I've tried this and it doesn't work because the installer never finds the driver. The problem isn't with the i3 or chipset but it's due to the fact that OS installation utilities don't recognize an NVMe SSD as a real drive that is bootable so an OS can't be installed on them in a desktop computer or anything else either.

WORKED ! For my ACER SWIFT 3 . THANK YOU

Thanks for this. It really worked 👍🏼

Thanks for much! Only video I've found that fixed my problem!

Great video that solved the problem I had. Many thanks to you.

What's the technical reason for why this is happening? Shouldn't intel be investigating this? I ran into this problem when building my pc with a 12400f and B660M-A mb. I had to look it up for a couple of days before someone mentioned turning off vmd controller. It worked after this but what in the world is a vmd controller? Why put it on the consumer to manually download drivers just to install windows?

Can't find the intel file? its deleted😢

I had this problem too, this video helped solving it i was booting from a sd card (only thing I had ) i have to get the drivers and do the sane he doing but you gotta search for the bin32 or bin64 also the driver i needed was Realtek card reader 2.0 (Google is your friend here ) extract the files to your hdd before format

It’s the most progress I’ve made so far, but when it gets to that LAST loading bit, none of the partitions or drivers or whatever show up on the list on this new pc I built and I can’t figure out why😩

It seems as if Intel has removed this file. Do you have any idea how else can we get the driver?

what about now that intel removed the file from the website?

End of 2022, troubleshoot still very much relevant, although I needed a different file for ASUS, as described on their homepage. RST somethingsomething. Don't trust my random internet comment, if the video's file does not work, go to the manufacturer's site, and find a topic like (for ASUS) "Troubleshooting - How to fix the problem that cannot find drives when installing Windows 11/10" Thank you very much for the video, would have taken me ages without you to find the right answer!

Thank you for your help,you saved my day, Dale.:)

Thank you so much! Solved my issue as well.

Thx man, this video helped me alot :). Keep up the good work!

Thx a lot buddy! Pretty helpful! Happy New Year 🎈

that was exactly what I needed , thank you so much

Great Info just to clarify its the VMD driver not the non-VMD to use right? Because in this video you use the non-VMD driver.

I keep finding videos that say this exact same thing. But, what no one mentions is what the people that have AMD processors are supposed to do. I have a skytech gaming pre-built. It has an AMD in it. So what website conveniently has a group of drivers for my system? Or can I just use the Intel ones until I get up and running?

i think you might find its a couple of settings in bios that needs temporarily disabling, secure boot is one of them and the other is something correlated to secure boot which may be different on various machines

thank you from Germany . You are great .

In my case, it was VMD drivers but it indeed helped a lot

I love this man, he is my saviour

Helped a lot brother!!💖✨

thank you! i've been working on getting my laptop to boot for like a week now

Thank you very much,i have the same problem,the third driver worked for me...Acer i5...

Amazing this worked after 1 million other things failed!!!!!!!

Thanks, this worked like a charm

Hey i have that same problem but i think intel took that file off their site what can i do?

Hi Dale! Thanks for the video. Will the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver work with my Intel Atom processed Laptop's eMMC drive which is manufactured by SanDisk. I'm trying to install a Tiny 11 Windows 11 iso as listed on the internet Archive and the installer doesn't detect my eMMC drive. Any suggestions for a solution to this

I just visited the intel site to download the driver and it has been taken off the site, any help with that

Thank you so so much for this video! I wacth always your video

Great video, I am having this exact issue, only I am trying to install Windows 7 on an AMD processor - alternate instructions for this scenario would be outstanding! Thanks!

But zip file is removed by Intel in website ?

When i am on the Intel site it doesn't show me the VMD and non VMD .....just the setupRST can you help me.....?!?!

Great tutorial really helped me. Thanks!

Thank you so much. I called their support, but they could not help. You are God send. Thank you again

Thanks Dale, very informative

Can also go into BIOS and change RAID to AHCI. You don't need RAID if you've only got one drive, not sure why Dell defaults their systems to RAID OOTB. Then it will pick it up automatically, the Intel driver is only for RAID.

Tanx man ... It's so helpful 😘

very informative.. thank you so much

Nice i just bought a new laptop and i want to install windows lite On my new laptop but i was confused why windows 11 installatio . Can't detect the partition

You are an Star Dale, I was panicking,

There are no more F6flpy option to download, Only the "SetupRST". Where can we get it? Any chance you share your F6flpy file with us?

Hi thank you so much this worked for me with my 12th Gen Acer Nitro 5

Thank you so much, this save me a lot of headaches..

the files have been removed from the intel website is there any other way

Really useful video. Thank you very much

The file is not there anymore

This worked well installing windows on laptop 11th gen cpu

God Bless you for sharing this solution!

Thanks this was helpful

Thank you so much you saved my life

Ok so I’ve done everything but when I choose my folder it doesn’t load anything but then when I uncheck hide drivers that aren’t compatible with computer’s hardware 2 option appear but either one I choose doesn’t work it just loads the green bar like if it’s loading but the green bar never reaches the end and when it finishes nothing happens?

THX BRO, HELPED VERY MUCH!

tried doing this in two 12th gen HP desktops. no matter what drive i use, it starts MICRO FREEZING after couple of minutes of usage and runs normally for next few minutes and loops back again.. i tried using 980 PRO w & w/0 heat sink, WD SN 850 and also samsung 970 evo plus. so i had to switch it back to SLOW OEM drive and everything runs normal. have you seen any cases like that ?

Thank you for the video😊

Thank you man, you helped me a lot .

How would I fix this issue if I had formatted the drive that was locked with bit locker ? When I get to install windows 11 it says there’s no drives for me to install on and when I liskdisk it only shows the removable storage usb with the iso on it

Thanks for your help

Im having this issue in 13th gen.. There is a slightly different file under 10th-13th gen rapid storage intel page. Im guessing the same applies?

thank you for your help!

Great video. Would like to make an important question in my case concerning the most recent dell computers that come with raid as an active drive controller (intel rst active) and not ahci. The problem is that whenever i try to boot into these machines in a winpe environment with the Strelec package if you know that, in order to reset the admin password if i cannot log into it or just backup the data of a user into an external hdd before reinstalling windows if the precedent os is damaged and cannot be repaired, the internal hdd-s or ssd-s or just the os directories into the drives are invisible. I click on “This PC” and there’s only my usb visible and nothing else. I made a search on the internet and it seems it has something to do with the intel rst driver that abstracts the hdd from the os. Please help me, what should i do in this case in order to be able managing the pc even when the pc is unbootable or just the admin password is not recognized

So this worked for me to get past the window when it loads the files to boot windows fresh, but when it does the force restart at the end I end up back where I started with no RST drivers on the computer, how can I solve this?

Thanks man.... That was awesome...

you saved my life thank you

I'm in dipair!!! It does'nt work for me!!! whyyyyyy. This stupid computer shows me a message. "No new devices were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK." I downloaded aaaalllll the driver that exist in intel site. what can I do? 😢

the flash drive stuff worked but none of them was compatible with my computer. I have an alienware R10 Any advice? if so what if i buy a new SSD will it help the issue??

Dude, they changed the freakin' links.... it goes to an installer that won't work. Would you still have the driver file?

Awesome.....Thank You 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I have an Acer Aspire with a 12th gen I5, is the link the same. I've tried everything and it always comes up to the no drive. Thanks, Mike

it wont let me to get even to click install just everything froze up and its showing an error menu and I cant use the mouse either

This didn't work. I had to uncheck the box that hid drivers that weren't compatible with my hardware and the driver area is still blank

I have this driver and showing this driver too but after installing the driver ,sdd till not showing Plz guide mee

Link took me somewhere else, help?

I’m having the same problem with my desktop computer on Windows 11, will this fix my problem as well?

this would not work with amd cpus right i am having a boot loop issue and i can see my drives but it just freezes

Hello Dale, you have outdated video. Intel doesn't have that link anymore.😢😢😢 Can you please help🙏🙏🙏. I have a clean installation. Upgrade my laptop SATA HDD on SATA SDD Crucial.