Windows 10: No storage drivers in installer

Trying to install Windows 10 on Thinkpad T60 2004-4AU, don't have a hard drive in it so I am using a 64GB SanDisk Glide flash drive and it does not see it, it says "We couldn't find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load driver."

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Experiencing Critical Process Died when shutting down or restarting my computer .

I could not see anything else however the system is using the generic storage controller and you may benefit from installing the specific storage driver from Intel - I believe the following is the latest Intel storage driver for the computer :

Download Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) User Interface and Driver

As a general precaution create a System Restore Point prior to installing storage drivers.

 

WIN 10 says no storage drivers available when try to install

Nipun,

Thanks for bringing this up. We would need additional information in order to proceed accurately. We will be needing the exact place where you stop. Can you provide us a screenshot? You can capture your screen using your phone camera, and post the pic on
your reply. See
How to Include Screenshot on your Post.


For now, and as we wait for your reply, you may try to re-download the media installer of Windows 10
on a working computer, since it could be that the one you have is damaged. Ensure that you have turned OFF whatever antivirus do you have before downloading the package to avoid any download issues. Enable them again once the download succeeded and the media
is already created in a bootable drive.

Feel free to update us.

 

Only Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education allow installing to a removable drive.

 

I managed to use WinToFlash and it worked beautifully!

 

Can you please post how you used that to actually install Windows 10 to a flash drive, please?

 

Correction from my last post it is called WinToUSB NOT WinToFlash *Smile
I download the Windows 10 ISO file. Downloaded WinToUSB from here - Clicked on the free one, I installed it, When I opened it I selected the ISO file then chose the option that I needed below, in my case only one showed up but I only did this once, You then select the destination disk, and select where you want your system and boot partitions. Next choose how big you want your virtual hard drive to be, it will then install. After it was done I plugged it in and turned on my Thinkpad and booted from USB. From there it will do the same thing as if you installed to a hard drive, it will go though and install device drivers and all that lovely stuff that takes forever for me.

This is how it shows the flash drive in file explorer - The first is the VHD and the second is the actual flash drive.

 

Very cool. I need to check that out.

Thanks for posting a detailed set of directions.

 

Let's hope Windows won't realize they are running from a USB and block. I had installed an old version of Windows (maybe XP) on a hard disk and then tried to connect it to the same computer via USB using an IDE/USB adapter. I only got BSOD and could never boot. Maybe WinToUSB works better.