Windows 10 Recovery USB created from Dell's official iso fails to find SSD in XPS 15 9500

Hello folks

I have a Dell XPS 15 9500 (2021 H1 edition) with core i9-10885H, 32GB RAM and 1TB SK Hynix SSD.

I had been using Linux on it but now I want to install Dell's "official" Windows 10 on it. I downloaded Dell's Windows 10 OS recovery image and created a bootable USB with it. I followed the instructions listed on Dell's site here under the "Create a bootable USB recovery media using a Linux-based computer (using the command line)" section.

I am able to boot from the USB disk by pressing F12 and selecting the USB before boot starts. However as soon as I start Windows install, it fails with this error msg

 

I googled it and found that this could be fixed with installing Intel RST drivers. However, I can't seem to install those drivers. Every time, I try to install any of them, I get this error -

 

I have also tried installing other drivers listed by unchecking the "hide drivers" checkbox but it still doesn't find any drives.

I downloaded the file from Dell's "Drivers and Support", extracted the files to a folder and added them to a USB and tried installing them during the Windows install but it fails with an error.

I also tried booting from USB created from stock Windows 10 from Microsoft and that too failed.

I read that you can bypass this whole problem disabling RAID and selecting the AHCI controller in BIOS which I did. However, even that doesn't seem to work in my case. Windows still can't find the drive. The funny part is that with the AHCI controller, I can install and run Ubuntu without issues and therefore I know that my SSD is fine. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

Can someone help?

 

My BIOS version is 1.20 and doesn't have a "Legacy Boot" option. Also, I have tried with Secure Boot disabled too. TPM 2.0 is enabled.

 

Thanks!