Windows 10: New fresh installation to new M.2 Kingstone disk: media driver missing

Hi,I have problem with clean install of Windows 11 to this SSD Kingstone SFYRD/2000G installed to newly bought Dell 5431. If I'm trying install W11 I will get error: media driver missing. I was search information about it and I found It should be problem with missing Intel Rapid Storage Technology. I downloaded lastest Intel RST from Intel sites, extracted drive and move to USB. Durning installation W11 I located the drivers something like /15063/Drivers/VMD and I selected Intel RST VMD Managed Controller 09AB to install driver but W11 throw error exceptions about there is no new driver fo

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Can't install Windows on new Kingston M.2 NVMe drive ('no device drivers were found')

May I ask whether your disk2 (M.2 SSD) has file data?

You can try to format disk2 using the command in diskpart, wait for the format to succeed, and then see if you can choose it as the path during installation.

The formatting commands are:

1. Enter diskpart
   
2. list
   
3. select disk 2
   
4. clean
   

Wait for the prompt that disk2 is formatted to exit cmd and return to the installer to see the results.

 

No Media Drivers / No Device Drivers Detected on fresh install on a new Desktop CPU

Hello Everyone,

I have recently built a desktop CPU and when I am installing Windows 10, I get the error message No Media Drivers Detected, and after that the continuous error message is No Device Drivers found.

I have fresh installed windows 10 several times and this is the first time it happened. I checked in the command prompt that the USB stick is detected, as well as the M.2 and HDD that I have installed. I have also tried all of the usb ports on the motherboard
and also the ones on the chassis and all of them give me the same error.

Later I will try using another USB stick and redownloading Windows from the media creation tool. Any additional troubleshooting steps are highly appreciated.

Thank you and have a good one.

 

replacing C: with larger M.2 NVme drive and move programs installed on D: to the new M.2 drive

I have a DELL Desktop Computer XPS XPS8920-7581SLV-PUS Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700 desktop running Windows 10 Pro with the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 NVme drive as the C: drive and a 1TB hard disk as the D: drive. I have installed a couple of games and applications to the D: drive due to the size of the install files.

I am now planning to replace the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 drive with a Samsung 500 GB 970 EVO M.2 NVme drive.

The procedure I plan to use is to:

• clone the Toshiba drive to a new Western Digital SSD installed in a hard disk bay
  
• replace the Toshiba with the Samsung
  
• clone the new SSD back to the Samsung
  

At that point I should have a bootable C: on the Samsung NVme drive.

The next step would be to move the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk to the Samsung NVme drive since I now have the space for them.

However it is not really possible to just move installed applications due to all the Registry changes that would be needed.

The two applications are Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (both Community Edition) and the games are World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, and Fallout 4 (the last being a Steam download).

So I am looking for advice on these changes.

Alternative approaches

It seems that I have a couple of options:

• clone the 1TB hard disk to the new SSD and just use the new SSD as D:
  
• uninstall the games and applications then reinstall them to the new C:
  
• create a D: partition on the new NVme drive and copy the installation folders there
  

The easiest approach would seem to be to clone the 1TB drive to the new SSD as D: and move on. However I would be missing out on the NVme goodness with the games as well as the Visual Studio programming environment.

The most straightforward approach would be to uninstall the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk and then reinstall them to the C: drive.

The applications are Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, both Community Edition. These would both be straightforward to uninstall from D: and reinstall to C:.

The games are World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 from Blizzard and Fallout 4 from Steam. These games will require long download time probably two or three days over my internet access. And I would have to start Fallout 4 all over again.

Concluding thoughts

Perhaps the best option would be to combine the first two options.

Since the Visual Studio uninstall and install would be fairly painless I could do that while leaving the games on the 1TB drive and then do the clone of the 1TB drive to the new SSD. Then at a later date I could move World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 over to the NVme drive.

I would think that working with Visual Studio would be easier and quicker from the NVme C: drive while the games would be quick and responsive enough if the game assets are on an SSD.