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NVMe SSD detected in BIOS but invisible during Windows 11 installation / Diskpart — ASUS TUF FA506QM (Ryzen 7 5800H)
I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 11 on my laptop, but the Windows setup cannot detect my internal NVMe SSD (no drive shows up in the drive selection screen).
Hardware Specs:
Laptop Model: ASUS TUF Gaming FA506QM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (with Radeon Graphics)
SSD: Samsung PM991a 512GB (OEM Model: MZVLQ512HBLU-00B00, NVMe PCIe Bus 4 Dev 0 Func 0)
The issue:
The SSD is perfectly detected and listed in the BIOS (model name and serial number visible).
When booting the Windows 11 installer, no drive is listed.
Opening cmd via Shift+F10 and running diskpart > list disk only shows my USB installation drive, not the internal SSD.
What I have tried so far:
- Loaded BIOS default optimized settings (F9).
- Checked BIOS settings (no Intel VMD available since this is a full AMD platform).
- Attempted to manually load AMD RAID/NVMe storage drivers during setup (tried AMD RAID driver packages including rcbottom and rcraid folders), but the installer states the driver is incompatible or nothing changes. It's possible I did not load the right driver version for this chipset/SSD combo.
- Recreating the installation USB with Rufus in pure UEFI/GPT mode.
Has anyone encountered this specific issue on an AMD-based ASUS TUF laptop? Which exact driver or BIOS configuration is needed to make the Samsung NVMe drive visible in Windows setup?
Thanks in advance for your help!
u/Even-Diver-6936 — 1 day ago