The installers are not recognizing either of your two NVMe SSDs on their own, nor the Raid-0 RST array made up of them.
The installers are not recognizing either of your two NVMe SSDs on their own, nor the Raid-0 RST array made up of them.
In short, I had Windows 11 running on the same system with two 2TB NVMe drives in Raid-0 using VMD and Intel RST. I switched to Arch Linux, turned off RST, and left the drives as they were. For months it worked fine. Now I’m having trouble getting the Windows installer to recognize my drives. When I try to install, I get a "Load Driver" error saying a media driver is missing. I’ve tried installing Intel RST drivers but it doesn’t work. The installer doesn’t detect them properly, even when I put them back into a RST Raid-0. I can still see the drives in DiskPart and they appear in the file explorer if I set them up as NTFS. How can I get Windows to recognize at least one of these drives for installation?
Update your post to include full system hardware specifications and details about Windows 11's version. Make and model NVME drives? Any other drives?
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Concerning the question about displaying drives in the file explorer, it seems Windows will boot normally but may not show the drives if configured as NTFS. Correct?
Can you open Disk Management and expand it so all drives are visible? Also, if other windows such as diskpart display the drives, please share screenshots here via imgur (www.imgur.com).
Set up Windows installation media on a USB using an MBR partition table. I followed the instructions from the guide on a Mac, but envisioned a scenario where the official Windows media installer would function properly on a Windows machine with a USB stick. You'll also need to install the RST drivers, especially if using NVMe drives. Either obtain them from your motherboard manufacturer's site and store them on a separate USB drive, or extract them from the setupRST.exe file provided by the installer. Run ./setupRST.exe -extractdrivers setupRSTDrivers to extract the drivers into that directory. Next, ensure the Windows installer doesn't get mixed up with other boot partitions on the device. Removing or formatting these partitions can resolve the issue. Completing these steps allows you to install Windows on a system that shares a software RAID 0 array with an Arch Linux installation.