Windows 10 installer not detecting HDD/SSD on newer Laptops!

[LordX]

Has anyone else ran into this recently?

Just got an Acer A517-52 Laptop for a customer, and went to install Win10 fresh, only for it not to detect any drives. It is a regular Intel Laptop with a NVME SSD. Never really had issues installing Win10 on similar systems in the past. Wondering if there is a new driver these systems are using - and hoping that the new windows 10 build that is right around the corner will rectify this!

 

[seashore]

Interesting. In the circumstances, maybe just remove the bloatware from the pre-installed Windows?

 

[LordX]

Interesting. In the circumstances, maybe just remove the bloatware from the pre-installed Windows?

Yeah, it didn't have the latest Win10 build, so I downloaded that installer, and told it to 'keep nothing' so I got close to a fresh install. Just had to delete the DL folder afterwards.

Hope this is rectified in the newer builds coming up - if the laptop needs a new hard drive - or was getting upgraded to a bigger SSD, this would be more annoying.

 

[phaZed]

This is an "old problem" dating back to the first GUI Windows... if Windows doesn't have the drivers, the Windows Installer has a facility to load a driver from a disk/USB - you have to DL the IDE/AHCI/SATA/RAID drivers and load them yourself.

 

[LordX]

This is an "old problem" dating back to the first GUI Windows... if Windows doesn't have the drivers, the Windows Installer has a facility to load a driver from a disk/USB - you have to DL the IDE/AHCI/SATA/RAID drivers and load them yourself.

Yes I know.... just thought it was odd that a relatively 'mainstream' laptop had this issue. I rarely run into this problem, and I think it has been years since I have on a regular OEM machine.

 

[fincoder]

New computers have their drive initialised as GPT (for a number of years now). Only Windows 10 install media initialised as GPT can see those drives.

I use Rufus to make GPT install media.