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June 27th, 2025 17:49

Is there a generic Intel RST driver for most all Latitudes?

I work almost exclusively with Dell Optiplex and Latitudes.

When I need to boot to a USB to troubleshoot, almost always if it's a winPE based app, it won't see the NVME drive - because the BIOS comes from Dell set to RAID.  

And that means it needs the intel RST drivers, right?

And if it's a linux based app, it almost always sees the NVME drive.

I realize the WinPE doesn't have the driver it needs to see the drive.  

But working on a wide range of Latitudes made in the last 4 - 5 years at most, do I need a specific driver for each machine?

Is there a generic intel driver I can give the WinPE so the app can see the NVME drive?

Linux seems to be able to work with most any NVME... why can't windows?

There's loads of discussions about changing the BIOS from RAID to ACHI to get around not having the  RST driver.  But then the discussion about how that affects performance if you do that as soon as you get the PC.

And if you change it to see the drive for troubleshooting, for a system that does boot up (you need to use an app to clone the working OS drive), then you have to deal with extra steps for the drivers for switching between RAID to ACHI and then back again.

I've found loads of pages like these for drivers.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000108642/winpe-10-driver-pack

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000180534/dell-family-driver-packs

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000109893/dell-command-deploy-driver-packs-for-latitude-models

But there's so many choices.  For troubleshooting, I was hoping there was a single driver that lets me see the NVME... maybe not the exact driver for that machine.. But it works for the short term?

THANKS!

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June 28th, 2025 15:48

@MikeRenna 

the family driver will do the trick!
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000180534/dell-family-driver-packs
Download the family driver packs for your machine, add only the one needed right now. 
Collect the other drivers later and add them to your WinPE. 
I ran into the same prob and this workaround was the only one I have figured out right now.
You can solve it with Microsoft Management Software or other 3rd party software, but thats expensive.

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June 30th, 2025 16:39

Thanks for the info.... and don't mean to quibble.  but you say 'THE' family driver will do the trick.

Clicking on that link, there's dozens of different machines.  And then links for different OS versions.

Not knowing now what machine I'll be working on (sure, I can whittle the list down a little bit), THE family driver i need is in dozens of downloads!?

and I don't envision adding the driver(s) to the WinPE... just add the driver to the app once it's running - a bunch of apps using winpe and baked into an ISO are in this situation.  And they keep getting updated  so I'd have to keep updating the ISOs.

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July 4th, 2025 14:50

@MikeRenna 

here are all generic drivers for INTEL RST 
Just inject those files to the WinPE and no more drivers needed ;-)

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/drivers-intel-chipset-mei-vmd-serial-io-gna-dtt-hid-pmt-6xx-7xx-8xx.11946/

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