Guide Issues Startup Issues Intel Rapid Storage Technology RST - NVME and SATA Raid Drivers Updated May 21 2025
If Windows crashes with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSOD after cloning a drive, or won't show the drive during install of windows, there are several things to check. If you are installing Windows, you may be able to disable Intel RST in the BIOS, or change the SATA/Drive mode from RAID or Intel RST to AHCI.

You can download the Intel RST drivers, and use the commands shown here to load them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/x8avgq/cloning_a_pc_ahci_to_rst/





You can boot from a Win10 or Win11 USB drive.
If it can't see the hard drive, download the storage drivers, have it on the computer on a USB drive, and run a command like this to activate the driver:

Copy to Clipboardpnputil -a "C:\ADL\iaStorVD.inf" /install


Once you can see the hard drive, you can use this command to install drivers on the windows drive. In this case the H: is the drive where Windows is installed, and C: is the USB drive that has the driver.
Copy to Clipboarddism /image:H:\ /add-driver /driver:"C:\drivers\iaStorVD.inf"



A couple pages with more info about injecting drivers using DISM:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/95008-dism-add-remove-drivers-offline-image.html
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/unattended-setup-how-to-add-intel-rst-driver-for-load-driver.18031/


This isn't working, I need to test and update this code
You can add the RST drivers to the Recovery Image using:
Copy to Clipboarddism /Add-Driver /Mount-Wim /WimFile:X:\sources\recovery\winre.wim /Driver:C:\IntelRST.inf /Recurse
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