New windows 10 install on solid state drive. I downloaded the storage driver I needed and had ins.

[cybertweak]

I needed to replace a dead hard drive in my HP Envy E1P04AV notebook.

I chose to upgrade to a 500gb SSD.

I created a windows 10 thumb drive which seems to work and I went to HP download drivers page and downloaded, 

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver

12.8.2.1000 Rev.

When I try to locate the file during windows install I is not showing up in the list of drivers. I went back to the desktop computer to double check and the file is there.

I am wondering if my bios set up wrong? or should I update BIOS? It is probably 5 year old computer, just an estimate.

Any help would be appreciated

[pbroussard]

Did you extract the Intel driver and put it on your flash drive? It must be extracted first.

[VH2000]

You have to extract the INF-Driver first. What you probably have is a SPxxxx.exe.

But you don't need that when you run an Installation. When that is finished you need the driver.

[eMark]

I think I had the same issue. On this old i3 ProBook I put a 500GB SSD Inland Professional brand, and the laptop would not boot to it. I went into the Bios and set USB drive as primary and still would not boot. Eventually I went into the UEFI setup in Bios and removed the stored UEFI database?. Can't recall the exact name but after that I was able to get the laptop to boot to the USB drive. Be sure to use an SS-USB port if you have one, that will allow for USB3.x speed if your flash drive supports it. I have three drivers that have yet to settle out in Device Manager, but it works fantastically! Better than the day it was new, due to the SSD performance over the ancient SATA drive, LOL.