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No available drive showing while trying to install Windows 10 on Lenovo IdeaPad 5i with SSD.

I am trying to install Windows 10 Enterprise on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 5i with a USB drive (came with W10 Home installed) and for some reason, there are no available drives detected during the install. I went into DISKPART during the install and it shows nothing there either.

The laptop runs fine on W10 Home, there is only one drive (C: and it is SSD). The BIOS does not have legacy support and it took me some time to get it to boot from USB (the USB I use all the time on other computers would not show up until I used Rufus to create a new one) then it booted and started to load until it got to the point where it saw no available drives.

I am guessing there is something in the BIOS or some other security setting causing he issue but I have not been able to find it. Any help is appreciated, thanks! Here are some images of the BIOS if this helps:

arnold

Boot the system into windows 10 home, insert the USB, and run from there. choose upgrade...

Likely the Secure boot/TPM might have the drive encrypted
see the second screen shot you posted.

You can wipe the drive during the upgrade to make it a clean install if this is what you are after.

g8rcub

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I tried running setup from my original bootable USB with W10 while logged in but received the error: "Windows could not display the images available for installation".

Then I inserted the bootable USB I created in Rufus (the one I was able to boot to) and it appears to have worked, although I must have grabbed the wrong ISO when creating that drive and it was also W10 home (oops)... I will dowload W!0 Enterprise and create another bootable USB then try again adn report back. Thank you for the help with this!

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rindi

Check how the Disk is connected to the PC. Is it setup for RAID, AHCI, or something else? For RAID & AHCI you probably need to load the Manufacturer's driver when you get to the Partitioning part of the Installer. You should be able to download that from the Lenovo site, then extract it to your USB stick to a Data Directory or similar, so you can install it.

If is also possible that a more current download of your Win 10 Enterprise Image already includes some newer drivers, so that might get the Disk Visible without having to install the driver.

nobus

the drive shows in the last pic Samsung MZALQ256
can you post a pic of the last screen hou have during install ?

g8rcub

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I was able to download W10 Enterprise again and ran the installer from the desktop and it did work, thank you!