While VMD offers better management, it presents a chicken-and-egg scenario during a fresh Windows installation: The Windows installer does not natively include the drivers required to "see" the VMD controller. Consequently, the installer cannot detect any SSDs connected to it, resulting in the "No drives were found" error screen.
: Intel has recently moved away from providing the standalone on some official pages, favoring the installer. If you only have the F6flpy-x64 -intel-R- Vmd-.zip 12th Gen