HP 15-dy2000 series laptop is unable to detect the internal SSD/HDD during Windows 11 installation d

[Drizzy_-]

• I am currently running Kali Linux on my HP 15-dy2044nr laptop and I want to switch back to Windows 11. During the installation process, Windows Setup prompts me to “Load driver to show hardware”, and my internal SSD is not detected.

[tk_srq · Accepted solution]

@Drizzy_-,

If your notebook has an Intel Core 11th gen processor, the Windows installer needs to have Intel RST storage drivers to detect the storage drive to install Windows on. You can follow the steps below to install Intel RST storage drivers.

1. Create a Windows installation usb drive with Microsoft Media Creation Tool, which tends to be trouble free during the IRST driver installation, compared with ISO file-based installation usb drives.

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 in order 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 every partition, and when you just see 'unallocated space,' click Next to proceed the installation.

[Drizzy_-]

Thanks very much