Clean-installing Windows 11 on GX703HS, installer cannot detect the drive - solved

[Vorta]

Hello! I want to do a clean install of Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Zephyrus G17 (GX703HS) but when I boot the Windows installer from an USB, it doesn't detect the SSD (Samsung MZVL22T0HBLB). The drive is detected by UEFI and I can boot to Windows that are installed on it. I am only not able to do a clean install.

Tutorials I found online suggest disabling CSM so that the drive would appear. My laptop does not seem to have that option in it's UEFI. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Some additional details: both the SSD and my USB drive are using GPT, I have disabled the secure boot option in UEFI, I'm running the latest available UEFI version.

I hope someone has had a similar experience with their laptop so they can point me to the right direction. 🙂

[Jimbo93]

Vorta wrote:
Hello! I want to do a clean install of Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Zephyrus G17 (GX703HS) but when I boot the Windows installer from an USB, it doesn't detect the SSD (Samsung MZVL22T0HBLB). The drive is detected by UEFI and I can boot to Windows that are installed on it. I am only not able to do a clean install.

Tutorials I found online suggest disabling CSM so that the drive would appear. My laptop does not seem to have that option in it's UEFI. Has anyone had a similar experience.

Some additional details: both the SSD and my USB drive are using GPT, I have disabled the secure boot option in UEFI, I'm running the latest available UEFI version.

I hope someone has had a similar experience with their laptop so they can point me to the right direction. 🙂

Im thinking the usb flash drive is missing a necessary driver. There is a similar issue on HP devices with 11th gen processors maybe not same as yours?https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/177442-cannot-see-hdd-when-trying-do-clean-install-w1...*

Scroll down to the hp link in the above thread.*

[Jimbo93]

Here is a good guide for clean install of win11 that might help https://www.elevenforum.com/t/clean-install-windows-11.99/

[Jimbo93]

From the guide I posted there is also instructions linked for creating the usb flash drive. Here is that link to create the flash drive

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/create-windows-11-bootable-usb-installation-media.750/

[Vorta]

The solution was to have the IRST driver on the installation drive so I can load it during installation. I have only tried using the Samsung driver for the SSD before, it didn't occur to me that I actually needed an Intel driver.

Thank you! I hope this thread will help other people in the future too!