Jun 30, 2022

Acer TravelMate P214-53 : Unable to detect NVMe Drive.

 Acer TravelMate P214-53 : Unable to detect NVMe Drive.

  1. Press --> F2 key to enter into BIOS.
  2. Goto --> Security tab --> Supervisor Password --> Enter a temporary password (eg. 1234)
  3. Disabled Secure Boot.
  4. Then --> Save & Exit.
  5. After restart, enter back into BIOS again and CLEAR the Supervisor Password but leave the Secure Boot option Disabled.
  6. Save & Exit.
  7. Download --> Intel RST for VMD Drivers --> Intel Download Center.
  8. Unzip drivers into USB Flash Drive.
  9. Boot Windows 10 installer as usual, you will not able to see any HDD/SSD detected.
  10. Click --> Load --> Browse --> Select --> Intel RST VMD folder.
  11. After load completed, you can now see the NVMe drive is detected.
  12. Proceed to format and install Windows 10 accordingly.
Special Note :
Sometimes the Intel RST Drivers although was loaded and able to detect the NVMe drive successfully, but Windows installer will prompt error message "0x80300001", just proceed to restart the computer again and boot into Windows install as usual and re-load the drivers again.