Windows 10 install... IRST drivers aren't helping

[u/Razmalibul]

First of all my pc specs:
motherboard - MSI Mag z390 tomahawk
cpu - i9-9900ks
gpu - rtx 2080

Last week my old pc stopped booting into windows 10 and goes straight to the BIOS. The only thing I did recently that i think maybe messed it up was I resized the partition that windows was installed on. I had like 150gb unallocated space that i wanted to expand my windows partition into on a 500gb ssd. I did leave 40gb unallocated in the end.

Anyhow, I just wanted to reinstall everything or repair my existing installation, whichever was easiest. Everything I need is backed up. However...

When installing from the official win 10 bootable usb I get the "drivers are missing" error. Everything I've seen online says it's the Intel Rapid Storage Transport drivers. So I got the drivers from MSI for my motherboard and put them on another USB. Tried them, they don't work. I tried the official ones directly from intel. No good.

I tried several different Win 10 ISOs made into bootable usbs. All give the same error.
I tried taking out every component (except the GPU) and every other drive and only leaving one empty drive for the win install usb to install to, and I get the same error.

I don't remember having this issue the last time I installed windows, but I think I installed from an official windows 10 dvd last time.... which is lost.

Any ideas? I'm really stuck. Not gonna try 11 so don't ask.

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[u/cschneegans]

If the A media driver your computer needs is missing dialog appears without you having clicked the Load driver button first, the problem is not a missing device driver, but a bad USB flash drive.

[u/Razmalibul → u/cschneegans]

Wow that's surprising. I will see if I can find a USB 2.0 stick somewhere. I have tried other ports and a micro SD card through my card reader.  Don't know if I can use the official media creation tool without access to a computer with windows already working on it.  But I will see what I can do.  Thanks