Installation issue We couldn’t find any drives

Hey guys,

I am installing Windows 10 on Lenovo T400 Laptop and getting this error We couldn’t find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load Driver.

How to fix it ?

Regards.

jk22 said:

Hey guys,

I am installing Windows 10 on Lenovo T400 Laptop and getting this error We couldn’t find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load Driver.

How to fix it ?

Regards.

From that screen what do you get if you press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt and then type diskpart <enter>, list disk <enter>?

lx07 said:

From that screen what do you get if you press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt and then type diskpart <enter>, list disk <enter>?

I get Disk 0 and with correct size of harddisk.

Is it gpt? It will have a star in the Gpt column like this if it is

Code:

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          113 GB   128 MB        *

lx07 said:

Is it gpt? It will have a star in the Gpt column like this if it is

Code:

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          113 GB   128 MB        *

Its MBR.

Do you want to wipe the whole disk and do clean install?

If so in diskpart:

SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS
ACTIVE
EXIT

You may have to reboot and restart the installation but that should work.

lx07 said:

Do you want to wipe the whole disk and do clean install?

If so in diskpart:

SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS
ACTIVE
EXIT

You may have to reboot and restart the installation but that should work.

Do you want me to convert into GPT also ?

No - I'm assuming your T400 doesn't support UEFI. My x201 doesn't and is similar vintage.

You could check in your BIOS but if you don't have the option to turn on UEFI in BIOS then you want MBR not GPT.

Are you booting from USB? Are you using a 2.0 or a 3.0 stick? Sometimes 3.0 sticks will cause that.

lx07 said:

No - I'm assuming your T400 doesn't support UEFI. My x201 doesn't and is similar vintage.

You could check in your BIOS but if you don't have the option to turn on UEFI in BIOS then you want MBR not GPT.

Yes you are right.

Porthos said:

Are you booting from USB? Are you using a 2.0 or a 3.0 stick? Sometimes 3.0 sticks will cause that.

I am using USB 2.0.

Now there is another error:

A media driver your computer needs is missing.