How to fix Windows cannot find drives when installing Windows 11/10

• nowadays most notebooks use SSD drive as the primary partition for Windows installation. So the partition scheme should be GPT, not MBR and the File type should be FAT32

• you might face the problem where you can not locate hard drives/partitions when installing Windows. The problem indicates that the drives can not be found, load the drivers to locate them.

                                         

• For the Intel CPU platform, you need to manually install Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) driver during the Windows installation process
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• Free download IRST from Intel Drivers and Software web Extract the package, copy and paste in the same bootable disk drive so that you can locate the drivers and load using Load Driver option in the wizard. If the drivers can not be found just by selecting the drive letter, browse and locate to select.

 

• Then finally you will be able to view the drives available

• If windows can not be installed because of the BitLocker encryption, go to Privacy & Settings > Device Encryption > Off 

use diskpart command on command prompt while installing using Shift + F10 and list all disk drives available using "list disk". use "select disk X" replace x with drive number and then use "convert gpt" if the drive is not gpt.