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May 30th, 2021 13:00

"A media driver your computer needs is missing" on clean Win 10 install

I've read the thread from 2 years ago about this same problem and the solutions offered there do not work for me.  The nvme drive on my Area 51m R1 overheated and failed so I bought a WD Blue to replace it.  The drive is being recognized just fine, but upon trying to install a fresh Win10 image from USB, I am invariably greeted with this error. 

I'm at my wit's end.  The A51m only has USB 3 ports, so the easy fix of switching to USB 2 won't work.  I do not have access to another working PC, so I cannot use the Windows Media Creation Tool.  The old drive can still boot into windows (veeeeeery slowly) but it is too damaged to run the tool.  I was able to create two bootable USB sticks though after a lot of trial and error, one by manually extracting the .iso (which took over an hour) and one by using WinUSB (which I believe uses Rufus as a base -- Rufus itself will NOT run however).  Both are correctly formatted for UEFI boot.

I've attempted adding both the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller drivers to the installation stick, but no matter which chipset I select (I've tried the entire list, whether compatible or not), "No new device drivers were found." 

I seem to have hit a wall.  How do I get a fresh copy of Windows 10 onto this thing?