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Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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A media driver your computer needs is missing.  This could be a dvd, usb, or hard disk driver.  If you have  a cd, dvd, or usb flash drive with the driver on it, please insert it now

that's the error i get while trying to install from the latest windows 10 dvd  this is my system

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i7-7700:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ sudo inxi -Fxzmc33
System:
  Kernel: 5.17.14-lqx1-1-lqx arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    Desktop: MATE v: 1.26.0 Distro: Artix Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF v: N/A
    serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 8299 v: KBC Version 06.29 serial: <filter> UEFI: HP
    v: P01 Ver. 02.40 date: 04/08/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 charge: 95%
    status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.24 GiB used: 1.09 GiB (3.5%)
  Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 4 EC: None max-module-size: 16 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM4 type: no module installed
  Device-2: DIMM3 type: DDR4 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s
  Device-3: DIMM2 type: no module installed
  Device-4: DIMM1 type: DDR4 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3601 min/max: 800/3601 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3601
    2: 3601 3: 3601 4: 3601 5: 3601 6: 3601 7: 3601 8: 3601 bogomips: 57600
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz
    2: 1280x1024~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.1
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.14-lqx1-1-lqx running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.94 TiB used: 622.2 GiB (31.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB temp: 31.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Micron model: MT-128 size: 119.24 GiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Toshiba model: MK5075GSX size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 97.87 GiB used: 19.24 GiB (19.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 358.46 GiB used: 20.91 GiB (5.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 64 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 287 Uptime: 6m Init: N/A Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1
  Packages: 1034 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.15


So i did a web search and i found the hp page for drivers for my system.  i downloaded 14 different driver sources from hp for anything that it might could be then installed p7zip and extracted all the .exe files to folders and copied those folders over to the install media in a separate folder and reran the install and tried searching every driver for the potentially correct one.  None of them worked.  I'm puzzled as to what could be the media driver i might need.  Even more so since i grabbed everything from the hp website.  I wanted to install windows 10 on my system for nostalgia and in case i might ever need it.  I have mainly used it in the past for pairing my logitech usb keyboard and mouse to the unified controller for example.  On occasion there might be other uses.

FYI.  I have had this problem for some time and before i installed my nvme drive.  Previously i was able to install windows onto this machine but for whatever reason it no longer boots.  I have ran sudo update-grub to try and pickup the windows install but grub is not seeing it.  gparted says the uefi boot drive for windows can not be read.  I also can't seem to repair it.

I am feeling stumped at this point.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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it has to be usb 3 driver right?
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

Reply #2 –
Created a virtualbox, installed windows 10 pro in it and used thatbto create a windows 10 usb as the linux options werent working out.  Even so windows does not give me the option to install the version of windows i wish. Namely 10 pro.  It bypasses all the choices and restricts me to windows 10 home.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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3 am and i have this all sorted out finally almost

i just have to get rid of this top entry.  somehow that got into my nvme where my artix is installed.

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Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/nvme0n1p1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/sdc1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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Try ventoy to make bootable usb
Create problems which don't have solution

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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i did.  several times.  after creating it with gpt and installing ventoy i copied the iso over to the ventoy usb and after rebooting ventoy report no bootable iso was available, press enter to reboot.  rebooted into artix showed the iso in the ventoy usb.  used the same iso to create a 50gb virtualbox and install windows.  blech.  hate windows but there are uses for it when it is working.  When i was gaming i used the physical insta;l inside a virtualbox with shared folders to run esoui something or other and installed my eso addons inside the shared folder so that i could game on linux with addons.  I don't do that anymore.  it still has it's uses though.  quirky things come up from time to time.

I'm guessing i have bad usbs since they didn't show the iso in ventoy on reboot?  seems legit.  they are very old usbs 2.0some older than 8 yrs.  i think i got my moneys worth out of them? yah.  and some bad iso downloads too probably.  woeusb got all the way to the end to installing grub and never finished several times.

Downside to this business machine is i'm stuck with windows version tied to it home/core.  no pro.  no way no how.  unless i pay for a key.   maybe not even then.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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so can i just delete

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/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft

off of my nvme drive since i now have windows sorted out completely on it's own drive and installed exclusively to that with no other drives installed on the system during that install...oi...the headaches.

yah?

cut and pasted it in a hidden folder with a new name someplace grub couldnt peek.  that was the easieast part of this.  I was so HAPPY!  when after installing windows to a drive all by itself that the bios recognized that windows bootloader and i was able to see my artix efi bootloader and didn't have to reinstall artix.  sighs of relief! 

PS.  yes i know no one would give me support for this BUT for the nOObie or so who is dual booting that wrecks their system, this might prove useful.  It can just sit here quietly until someone quietly needs it.

just for fyi, my fstab mounting scheme includes mounting a drive in a directory of another drive and mounting an additional drive in the directory of that 2nd drive and mounting windows 10 so i can have access to it if i want to send a file from linux to windows - hibernation off and not an available option any longer..

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UUID=some-alpaha-numeric    /boot/efi			vfat    umask=0077 0 2
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric   	/					ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric   	/home				ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric  	/home/catherdersoflinux/Windows10 	ntfs	defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric   	/home/catherdersoflinux/Downloads ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric   	/home/catherdersoflinux/Downloads/VirtualBoxStuffs ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2
tmpfs                                            /tmp           tmpfs   size=30G,defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
UUID=some-alpaha-numeric  	none	swap	defaults	0	0

Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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one last thought.  Windows 10 install usb wouldn't give me the option to  install windows 10 pro on this machine.  It literally bypassed the option during setup.  What i did was this:  I installed windows 10 into a virtualbox while using a bare metal drive for the install.  there's a virtualbox internal commands thingy that will install a small .vdk file on your linux (mac or windows) host that will use your hdd/ssd to install on.  After installing it on bare metal drive i entered my key for windows 10 pro and activated windows 10 pro.  Rebooting out of linux i wa then able to use the f9 key to choose which os to boot from and windows 10 pro booted and is working great.

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VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "</path/to/file>.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda

https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/using-a-physical-hard-drive-with-a-virtualbox-vm/#:~:text=To%20do%20so%2C%20open%20the,when%20creating%20the%20VMDK%20file.

PS.  I'm on windows 10 pro now and writing to you from Montreal Canada as far as you can tell... or maybe i'm in sydney, australia...  who can say
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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Quote from: Arch_user – on
lol someone made rufus for linux https://github.com/OSeL-Dev-Team/rufus-for-linux


https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rufus-for-linux

page not found

https://flathub.org/apps/search/rufus-for-linux

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and finally appimage search

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https://github.com/3elDU/rufus-for-linux  someone forked it here and the last development was two months ago on each....

both are relying on woeusb and that i had trouble with.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Windows 10 install complains of media driver not present

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It was removed from AUR
Create problems which don't have solution