You are installing Windows Server 2022 Standard Core on a new 2U rack server by booting from the vendor-supplied DVD that is in the server's slimline optical drive. The system starts Windows Setup without errors, but the "Where do you want to install Windows?" page shows no disks even though the RAID 1 virtual disk is visible in the RAID controller's firmware utility. You want to keep using the optical media and avoid rebuilding the install source on USB or over PXE. Which action is MOST likely to make the installer detect the disk so the operating system can be deployed?
Disable Secure Boot in UEFI, reboot, and restart the DVD installation.
Change the firmware boot mode from UEFI to legacy BIOS (CSM) and retry the install from DVD.
Copy the RAID controller's Windows Server 2022 driver to a USB flash drive and use the Load driver option during Setup.
Open a Shift+F10 command prompt in Setup, run diskpart to clean and convert the disks to GPT, then refresh the list.
Windows Setup cannot display a disk that requires a storage (boot-start) driver which is not included on the installation DVD. Supplying the vendor's signed driver during Setup causes Windows PE to load the controller, after which the virtual disk appears and the install can continue. Disabling Secure Boot or switching from UEFI to legacy BIOS rarely fixes a missing-disk condition when the array is already visible in firmware. Converting partitions with diskpart is impossible because Setup cannot access the disk until its driver is loaded.
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