| Feature | Without VMD | With VMD (Default in BIOS) | | --- | --- | --- | | NVMe SSD recognition | Normal | Hidden until driver loads | | RAID support (Optane) | Broken | Functional | | Hot-plug PCIe drives | No | Yes | | Standard Windows USB boot | Works | |
Or worse: You’ve cloned your old hard drive to a new NVMe SSD, but upon booting, Windows throws a .
The culprit is almost always the same: technology. And the key to solving it is a small but mighty file: F6flpy-x64 -intel-R- Vmd-.zip Hp .