Ensure your SATA mode is set to AHCI rather than RAID unless you specifically have a multi-drive RAID array.
If the drive is "unallocated" or has a conflicting partition style (MBR vs GPT), you can force it to behave using . drive not showing when installing windows 11
Modern laptops (especially Intel 11th-gen and newer) use a technology called . AMD has a similar feature. These technologies manage NVMe SSDs and RAID configurations, but Windows 11’s default installation media does not have the driver for them. Ensure your SATA mode is set to AHCI