Can't get brand my new d drive recognized by windows 11 installer

[Charlesbusa]

I bought a WD black sn850x 2tb ssd to become my primary drive, drive d, in my hp omen 17t-ck000 laptop.  I removed my c drive and moved it to the secondary ssd spot and installed the new d drive in the primary spot.  At first it was not recognized at all.  I went to disk management and it was listed there as not initialized.  I initialized it and then quick formatted it.  Now the drive is recognized and shows 2 tb available.  It works fine as a secondary hard drive.  I downloaded windows 11 media creation tool to a flash drive and removed c drive from my laptop completely so i could install windows 11 onto the new d drive.  The windows 11 media creation tool started up and tried to go from the install but was not seeing d drive as an option to install to.  Also in bios I did not see d drive as an option for boot order.  However in bios is was listed as a storage device and i confirmed it was not in RAID mode.  Google AI said my next troubleshooting step was to download intel rapid storage technology and extract to my flash drive where during the windows 11 install I would have an option to load driver option so that the d drive would become available to install windows 11 onto.  However, intel rapid storage technology download did not have an extract to option, it only ran on its own and never gave me an option to extract it to the flash drive.  So now I'm stuck as searching for no extract option on intel rapid storage technology doesn't come up with any useful help.

How do I extract to the flash drive?

Will this solve my problem and let the windows 11 installation offer d drive as an installation destination?

[n_scott_pearson]

When you initialized and formatted the new drive, you also created a single partition that encompassed the entire drive. This is a problem; Windows wants to create three partitions, a UEFI System Partition, a Recovery Partition, and a Bit-Locker Encrypted System Partition. The best way to approach this is to simply delete the partition that you created on the drive and then let Windows choose how to do the partitioning. The process for this is as follows:

1. Start the Windows installation and proceed until you reach the screen where you select to install Windows.
2. Use the subcommand provided on this screen to delete the partition that you created on the drive.
3. Select the Unused/Available space entry for this drive and then click to proceed with the installation.

Hope this helps,

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[Charlesbusa]

When you say start the windows installation, I assume you mean with the bootable flash drive with windows media creation tool.

The problem I have been having is that the only place it sees to install windows on is the flash drive, not drive d where I want it.

[Charlesbusa]

When I get to select location to install windows 11, there is only the flash drive. The only options that aren’t greyed out is refresh and load driver. I’m hoping if I can put a driver on the flash drive, which I haven’t been able to do, then I can run load driver and then the d drive will be available for all the other options. Which are bring disk online/delete partition/format partition/create partition/extend partition. And also to select the d drive and install windows 11.

[Charlesbusa]

Took a pic, but don’t see how to upload it.

[n_scott_pearson]

Ok, this says to me that either the SSD is just plain bad or you have VMD/RST enabled. Presuming the latter, do you really want to have this? You don't need it except to support RAID. Are you planning to use RAID? If not, go into BIOS Setup and disable it.

...S