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I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This happens with both SSDs I've tried: the generic SSD which came with the laptop, and a Samsung SSD which I bought new. I have recreated the installation media several times from four different computers, but the same issue persists. Sometimes I will receive a warning that the installation media could not find a driver for a storage device ("CD, DVD, or USB"), and I'm confident that a missing driver is the issue as both SSDs function perfectly fine when running Ubuntu 22.04 both from a live USB and an install on the Samsung SSD.

I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This happens with both SSDs I've tried: the generic SSD which came with the laptop, and a Western Digital SSD which I bought new. I have recreated the installation media several times from four different computers, but the same issue persists. Sometimes I will receive a warning that the installation media could not find a driver for a storage device ("CD, DVD, or USB"), and I'm confident that a missing driver is the issue as both SSDs function perfectly fine when running Ubuntu 22.04 both from a live USB and an install on the Samsung SSD.

Thanks!

EDIT 2: output of lspci -tvnn

-+-[10000:e0]-+-01.0  Intel Corporation Device [8086:09ab]
 |            +-01.1-[e1]----00.0  Sandisk Corp Device [15b7:5017]
 |            \-06.0-[e2]----00.0  Solid State Storage Technology Corporation Device [1e95:1001]
 \-[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:9a36]
             +-01.0-[01]--+-00.0  NVIDIA Corporation GA104M [GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile / Max-Q 8GB/16GB] [10de:249c]
             |            \-00.1  NVIDIA Corporation GA104 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:228b]
             +-02.0  Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] [8086:9a60]
             +-04.0  Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant [8086:9a03]
             +-06.0  Intel Corporation Device [8086:09ab]
             +-07.0-[02-2c]--
             +-07.2-[2d-57]--
             +-08.0  Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module [8086:9a11]
             +-0a.0  Intel Corporation Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver [8086:9a0d]
             +-0d.0  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [8086:9a17]
             +-0d.2  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0 [8086:9a1f]
             +-0d.3  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1 [8086:9a21]
             +-0e.0  Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller [8086:9a0b]
             +-14.0  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:43ed]
             +-14.2  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Shared SRAM [8086:43ef]
             +-15.0  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:43e8]
             +-16.0  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Management Engine Interface [8086:43e0]
             +-1b.0-[58]--
             +-1b.2-[59]----00.0  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5260]
             +-1b.3-[5a]----00.0  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz [8086:2725]
             +-1f.0  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H LPC/eSPI Controller [8086:438b]
             +-1f.3  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller [8086:43c8]
             +-1f.4  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H SMBus Controller [8086:43a3]
             \-1f.5  Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H SPI Controller [8086:43a4]

Thanks!

I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This happens with both SSDs I've tried: the generic SSD which came with the laptop, and a Samsung SSD which I bought new. I have recreated the installation media several times from four different computers, but the same issue persists. Sometimes I will receive a warning that the installation media could not find a driver for a storage device ("CD, DVD, or USB"), and I'm confident that a missing driver is the issue as both SSDs function perfectly fine when running Ubuntu 22.04 both from a live USB and an install on the Samsung SSD.

However, I can't find the correct storage drivers. Razer doesn't seem to provide motherboard or storage drivers on their downloads site, and when searching with the motherboard name (Razer CH570) no drivers appear. Is there some generic storage/NVMe driver which I can add to the installation media, or does anyone know where to find the motherboard-specific drivers? Or maybe I'm completely wrong and the missing driver isn't specifically for the motherboard.

I'm happy to provide any additional information which might be of use.

Thanks!

I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This happens with both SSDs I've tried: the generic SSD which came with the laptop, and a Samsung SSD which I bought new. I have recreated the installation media several times from four different computers, but the same issue persists. Sometimes I will receive a warning that the installation media could not find a driver for a storage device ("CD, DVD, or USB"), and I'm confident that a missing driver is the issue as both SSDs function perfectly fine when running Ubuntu 22.04 both from a live USB and an install on the Samsung SSD.

However, I can't find the correct storage drivers. Razer doesn't seem to provide motherboard or storage drivers on their downloads site, and when searching with the motherboard name (Razer CH570) no drivers appear. Is there some generic storage/NVMe driver which I can add to the installation media, or does anyone know where to find the motherboard-specific drivers? Or maybe I'm completely wrong and the missing driver isn't specifically for the motherboard.

I'm happy to provide any additional information which might be of use.

EDIT: here is the output of lspci -nn which shows the two SSDs I have:

10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp Device [15b7:5017] (rev 01)
10000:e2:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Solid State Storage Technology Corporation Device [1e95:1001] (rev 01)

Thanks!