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So I built my first PC today and it was all smooth sailing until I got to installing Windows. It takes me through the language selection and as soon as it gets to the next step I get a pop up window that say "A media driver your computer needs is missing. This could be a DVD or Hard Disk driver. If you have a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with the driver one it insert it now". If i select browse I can see the usb and drive x: which i presume to be the ssd i want to install windows to but continue to get the same message if I rescan. In my bios all of my components and drives are recognized but despite this I can not get windows to install. Have remade my boot drive twice using both the windows media creation tool and Rufus but neither of them have worked. Have not been able to find a solution online and I am out of ideas. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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Just now, ShadyBeings said:

How are you installing it? USB or DVD?

Via USB, now noticing that I do not think my mobo is recognizing the USB in the bios when I try to select it in the boot priority order. Remaking the boot drive doesnt seem to solve this. The drive is however still visible in the browse section

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20 minutes ago, ShadyBeings said:

Where are you plugging your USB into? Front panel or back of mobo?

I have tried both, saw online some people said that I needed to use a usb 2.0 slot but my motherboard only has usb 3.0 and 3.1. Tried the front panel usb 2.0 and had no luck either

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3 minutes ago, TylerP15 said:

I have tried both, saw online some people said that I needed to use a usb 2.0 slot but my motherboard only has usb 3.0 and 3.1. Tried the front panel usb 2.0 and had no luck either

This is probably solvable but the easier route personally would be using a hard drive with Windows already on it to install Windows on your desired drive

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13 minutes ago, ShadyBeings said:

This is probably solvable but the easier route personally would be using a hard drive with Windows already on it to install Windows on your desired drive

probably a silly question but is it possible to hook up my internal ssd in my desktop to my laptop to do this? that is the only other computer that I have access to.

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1 minute ago, TylerP15 said:

probably a silly question but is it possible to hook up my internal ssd in my desktop to my laptop to do this? that is the only other computer that I have access to.

Most likely not, you can do the opposite though try your laptop HDD/SSD in your desktop if its easy to access

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