Portable Super Multi Drive Driver Error
Tina Larzelere
I've been trying to install win11 on my MSI Pulse laptop, but whenever I boot from USB it gives me error "A media driver your computer needs is missing". I found out so far that INTEL VMD/IRST is responsible for this error. It's an new intel tech to improve your NVME ssd life.
First thing I wanna tell is Windows really sucks! This thing made me sit like a chicken for almost one day.For me I was setting up a new build using new m2 ssd with USB drive 3.1 for installing OS. Try the below to see if it working for you.
Write a Linux distribution(ubuntu would do) to USB stick. Boot the OS live . Download/COPY your ISO file. Format new SSD/HDD drive using NTFS using gparted, create a small partition like 10GB for Windows setup, simply copy or write using any tool(copy would do) the files inside ISO file to this partition, remove the stick, boot the PC from SSD itself, whola! you got working Windows Setup!
I boot the installation DVD, after a while comes the screen where I can select the language.Then comes a screen with a button in the center that says "Install Now" and then comes a message "Setup is starting".
Then I made a third test:I booted from the same Windows 8 DVD that I installed before. And this is the only DVD of the 3 DVDs where I get up to the menu which allows me to select the parition into which I want to install.
The cause of the error "A media driver your computer needs is missing" may be that the ISO image is corrupt. I did not expect that because I downloaded the entire 4 GB image directly from Microsoft without any error from -us/software-download/windows10ISO
ADDITION:Now I use a newer version of Firefox (43) which always shows an error if the download (first link above) was not successful. The Microsoft link for ISO download is garbage. I tried several times to download the ISO file (4 GB) and Firefox told me once that 13 MB were missing and the next time that 430 MB were missing. The Microsoft Server aborts the transmission shortly before you have downloaded the ISO file completely. So you MUST use the Media creation tool to download Windows 10! This tool requires at least Windows 7. Forget it to download Windows 10 with any other operating system than Windows 7 or 8. It is really a SHAME that Microsoft is not able to provide a download of an ISO file!
Another solution may be to copy the Windows ISO to an USB stick when you get this error message. You can use Rufus for that. It may solve this error in the case that the cause is a problem with your DVD/Blueray drive. Not all drives support UEFI.
With the correctly flashed image, I booted from the first of the two partitions, and the install completed without any issues. This was on an AMD Ryzen 1700 370X-PRO board running in UEFI mode with disabled Compatibility Support Module (CSM).
In my case it was actually a driver issue - I added another CD-ROM device and connected it to the latest vmware Tools ISO, then when faced with the error, I browsed the VMware Tools ISO for the PVScsi driver and then the hard disk was detected by the Windows installation.
I'm here to provide details about my case, as an answer. I was trying to install windows 10 on a ASUS ROG STRIX G513IH (ryzen 7 4800h, 512GB nvme). I was downloading the ISO and preparing the USB stick with dd on UBUNTU.
Later, I tried another link and another way to get the ISO. I travelled to some friend, who has a WINDOWS system . I used the MediaCreationTool21H1.exe downloaded from =691209 and downloaded an ISO via that executable.
The only solution that worked for me was enabling the option "check device for bad blocks [1 pass]" in the programme Rufus, which I used to make the bootable U. S. B. drive to install Windows (using the Windows I. S. O. from Microsoft.com). For instruction on how to make an installation drive using Rufus, see here.
The first time I installed Windows 10 on my new computer, that is how I did it, and it worked fine. When I wanted to reinstall Windows later, I remade the bootable drive, but without setting the above option, because it takes a very long time. Then Windows installation on the new computer complained about the missing media driver every time I tried to install it. I even redownloaded the Windows I. S. O. from Microsoft and created the bootable drive again and again, but to no avail. Changing U. S. B. ports didn't help either. Then I created the drive again with the above option enabled, and it worked fine.
Note that the thumb drive I used was very new, so I doubt whether it truly had any "bad blocks". I don't know what Rufus did, but apparently the checking fixes something. Note also that I never tried creating the bootable drive using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool, because I was using Windows XP, on which it would not run; so perhaps that would have solved my problem as well, had I been able to try it.
Yes, i use mine without the virtual cd and it works fine, at least for the elite version, but you could try it. Copy the driver folder to windows and then disable VCD, cycle power the portable drive, connect again and if it asks for the driver browse for it.
Another clue to the problem is that I have had problems with installing any new USB devices for a while. When I plug in a new USB pen, instead of it just installing as it should, I get the Hardware Update Wizard appearing over and over again, one on top of the other. Eventually I manage to cancel all these occurences and the USB install with errors. Then if I go into the Device Manager, I can see the USB device with an exclamation mark by it. If I then reinstall the driver from there it installs OK.
I have been having a problem where Windows 7 will fail to boot when the Passport drives are plugged in during a cold boot. (Booting just freezes - and on re-boot, Windows 7 auto repair fails to fix the problem, but normal booting without drive is fine.)
(Edit : Please note that I am not trying to boot from the external WD drives. I am trying to boot from my main hard drive, the WD drive only contains data and no trace of any OS, and that USB devices are configured BELOW IDE devices in the boot sequence in BIOS)
SES stands for SCSI Enclosure Services, it let communication between the enclosure and hte SCI initiator. It can access information like power and cooling. It may affect the encryption feature. I can provide you with the driver if you want or google it.
I've got an old laptop (2nd gen i7) with a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 21h1 that I'm using in my new workspace to get back into tinkering, which I haven't done in several years. I know I need to install the driver for the CH340 controller to work properly, but I can't seem to install it. I've downloaded several times from multiple sources. The installer will launch, but when I click the install button I get "Driver install failure!"
I've tried compatibility mode and disabling driver enforcement (as recommended on this forum as far back as 2017), but nothing is working. I also tried on my main PC (also newer than the last time I tinkered with an Arduino) and it's also failing here with the same nondescript error.
I suspect Microsoft's recent over-enthusiastic "protect users from themselves" Apple mentality is to blame. I've had other issues with programs being blocked with no option to unblock them in the past few months leading to large amounts of frustration.
I apologize if this has been recently covered. But, I've searched quite a bit (over the last 2 hours) and I keep winding up on the same threads from 4 years ago, nothing more recent is coming up & those solutions are not working.
Where did you get the driver? I recommend always using the one from the CH340 manufacturer's website:
_EXE.html
(click the cloud with a downward pointing arrow button)
I believe they also have an English language version of the website at wch-ic.com, but I haven't found the time to investigate that option, so I am still recommending the original wch.cn site as the best source for this driver.
Just as an experiment, I grabbed an even crappier old laptop and installed Windows 10 1903 and the driver installed just fine. It seems the problem lies in newer versions of Windows 10 as I suspected.
I had not, but I just gave it a try and had the same problem as you. I actually think I have only ever used the driver installer once. I always use the .zip file and install the drivers via Windows Device Manager because some driver installers also install additional applications to manage that device and I only need the driver itself in this case.
Hi @k9tr. You can try running the .exe file that is in the unzipped driver folder. This is an installer provided by the chip manufacturer. I haven't had any success with running that (even though the procedure I describe above works perfectly for me), but another user reported that the manual driver installation via Device Manager did not work for them, but running the installer did work. So it's worth a try.
I had already tried running the .exe, no difference noted. I do have CH341PT.DLL and CH341SER.VXD in my System 32 folder, so something is attempting to install. Unfortunately these files don't properly install and/or function.
I'm getting a different error, but I see that two files are being created in the system32 folder. So the driver install is at least copying files, even though they don't work. I'm using the same version of Windows 10, 21H1. I even tried restoring Windows to a restore point created before the most recent drivers were installed, but the restore failed when it attempted to copy the registry. So even that old trick doesn't work, for me anyway. Waiting to hear more from Arduino support.
Yes, an official Arduino requires no driver. I have one, it works fine. Also, the clone manufacturer changed their hardware and they now require the FTDI driver instead of the CH340. They were not very good at communicating this change, hence my prior posts. My original clone board is working fine with the FTDI driver.
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