Can't find Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver for HP Victus 15 fa2701wm

[Victus15user]

I have a HP Victus 15 fa2701wm Gaming Laptop that came with Windows 11 Home preinstalled. I got a win32expiro virus from a file that somebody gave me so I decided to reinstall windows. When I tried to do a Cloud Reinstall of Windows, I got stuck on a Blue Screen that asks me for my region and timezone. So I tried to install from a USB drive but the partitions don't show up.

I downloaded the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver but it still shows "Error Loading Drivers" and doesn't work. Please does anyone know what I can do?

I can't find any IRST drivers specifically for my motherboard.

[tk_srq · Accepted solution]

@Victus15user,

Your model has an Intel i5 13th gen processor. You can follow the steps below to install IRST storage drivers.

1. Use a Windows installation usb drive created with Microsoft Media Creation Tool (an ISO file-based installation usb drives may cause errors during the IRST driver installation).

2. Download Intel RST driver from the link below. Run it as administrator and follow the on-screen instructions to perform the driver extraction.

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp146501-147000/sp146929.exe

3. Go to C:\SWSetup\sp146929. Double click the sp146929 folder and copy the F6 folder to the root directory of a Windows installation usb drive. The F6 folder contains IRST drivers which the installation setup needs to detect the storage drive.

4. Connect the usb drive to the notebook and boot the system from the usb drive. When asked where to install Windows, click on Load Driver -> Browse -> the usb drive in the window that opens -> the F6 folder -> OK.

5. Multiple .inf driver files may be displayed. Select one and click Next. If no driver files are displayed, uncheck the box on the bottom left corner of the screen to display drivers. Find and select an 'iaStorVD.inf ' file and click Next to load the driver.

6. The storage drive may be displayed with multiple partitions. Delete each of all the partitions, and you'll just see unallocated space and click Next to proceed the installation.

[Victus15user]

Thank you so much. It worked. I've been having troubles with this for a few days now. I hope you have a wonderful day.

[tk_srq]

You are welcome.

As you said, the drivers download page for Victus 15-fa2xxx models doesn't list any Intel RST storage drivers, and this may confuse many users who need the driver.

If my previous reply resolved your problem, can you mark it as a accepted solution and provide a Thums-up by clicking on the YES button? This may help many other 15-fa2xxx users who have the same issue? Thanks.