The is a driver package for Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) . It is specifically used during the Windows installation process to allow the installer to "see" your internal storage drives (SSD/HDD) when Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) is enabled in the BIOS. Key Details and Usage
— a fossil of an older Windows installation ritual, named after the F6 key you used to press to load third-party RAID or SCSI drivers during XP and Windows 7 setup. Intel VMD — Volume Management Device, Intel’s latest "innovation" that hijacked PCIe direct memory access and wrapped NVMe drives in an opaque management layer. And zip — because of course even Intel couldn’t be bothered to provide a proper installer. f6flpyx64 intel vmdzip
f6flpyx64 Intel VMD.zip.f6flpy-x64.zip (this is functionally identical).In short, is the official Intel driver package that allows Windows Setup to "see" your NVMe SSD when VMD is enabled in the BIOS. f6flpy-x64 (Intel VMD)