Possibly. Many modern chipsets present SATA drives as part of the VMD domain. Even SATA drives can fail to appear without the IRST driver.
If you are performing a clean install of Windows 10 or Windows 11 and the installer cannot find your hard drive or SSD, you likely need this driver. Download File F6flpy-x64-non-vmd.zip
: After downloading, you'll need to extract the contents of the zip file. Here's how you can do it on various operating systems: Possibly