Missing PC driver

[ktc2]

Hello.

I’ve been using NTLite to prepare PCs for three years.

For the past week, I’ve been stuck on the following issue: the disk does not appear at startup when booting from the USB drive that contains the customized Windows image.

This is the first time I’ve encountered this problem in three years. I’ve looked through various posts, but I haven’t found a solution.

My NTLite configuration is fairly simple:
- Windows 25H2 ISO downloaded from the
Microsoft website
- OOBE bypass
- Creation of a local user account
- Prompt to specify the machine name
- Installation of software and scripts

I saw in a post with a similar issue that there might be something related to loading boot.wim and install.wim, but I didn’t understand what steps need to be taken.

 

[garlin]

Usually this means your image is missing a required RAID controller driver (even if you don't use RAID).

Find the latest storage controller driver for your PC, extract the driver files to a local folder. Import the driver folder into the install image, and apply the same driver to boot.wim (index 2) at the same time. You can confirm it's a driver issue by temporarily switching from RAID to AHCI mode in the BIOS, and checking if the missing drive appears in Setup.

 

[ktc2]

Thanks for your reply.
Clearly there is a lack of competence of ntlite skills from me. I didn't know i could setup both boot.wim and install.wim.
I'll try asap ang get back here with the test conclusion

 

[ktc2]

Hello

It worked.
I had to download the Intel VMD drivers here https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...optane-memory-12th-to-15th-gen-platforms.html.
Intel proposes it only in .exe so i had to extract it using the .\SetupRST.exe -extractdrivers C:\Drivers\IntelRST command with admin rights.
Then i coped the whole "Drivers" folder into my USB key, without reloading the entire thing through NTLite.
I plugged the USB and booted and it shows my drive.

I know I did not touch boot.wim and install.wim but it worked also so if someone is stuck at that step, above is one of the solutions.