SN850 - no drivers to install windows

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Everything new, new motherboard Z790 Phantom Gaming, new 2x SN850x 1Tb. New clear Windows 11 installation. It asks me to find drivers…

  • Usual AHCI.
  • SSDs are visible in the BIOS, M2 slots.
  • I can install Ubuntu, but it doesn’t help for Windows
  • I tried WD NVMe Driver v3.3.2102.41615 - doesn’t work, that’s for old versions
  • I tried all drivers from ASRock website for my motherboard
  • I’m trying to find the solution for already 13 hours (2 days)

Any help, ideas?

P.S.: WD support doesn’t work. It’s 9:16 now IST. When I click “CHAT NOW-APAC” it says “not available, working time 09:00-17:30 IST”…

I stuck here every time

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SOLVED.

In my case:
I was creating installation USB flash card with Win 11 from Mac using dd command in terminal and before I was formatting it in MS-DOS (Fat32) using scheme GUID.

What I changed:
Formatting MS-DOS (Fat32) using scheme Master Boot Record. The I just copied all files from iso to this formatted USB flash drive.

That’s it! It worked. After w days & 17+ hours of searching. Cheers!
I this the problem was in… GUID scheme… lol

P.S.: in my case I didn’t have files more, than 4Gb. If you have - check youtube for Wimlib app

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AHCI is not suitable use the RAID setting even with a single SSD