Installing windows from Linux
I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov. Big mistake.
See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.
Giving up and installing windows from windows
Without using the Windows Media Installation tool you will have to install drivers from your motherboard manufacturers website. If they don’t work you’re screwed. I eventually gave up and used the installation tool on a windows laptop of mine. This worked fine OOB, didn’t even need the driver. It then proceeded to be a normal windows installation and take 2 hours.
Using rufus you can automatically configure some things like a local account. Running Shift + F10 in the installer will open the command prompt and you can then type oobe \\bypassnro, disconnect it from any internet, then restart. Then you can click “I don’t have internet” and you can make a local account.
CTT and other optimization tools
I used to use CTT aka irm christitus.com/win | iex. I notice after about 2 years a common pattern. When I used CTT on a machine it would often blue screen, when I didn’t it wouldn’t. Take that for what you will but optimization tools to make Windows go from 9.5GB of background RAM usage to 9.2GB at the cost of stability isn’t worth it to me.