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Lortecs
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Apr 18, 2026

"A media driver your computer needs is missing" after booting into USB Drive with the iso file on it

Hey, I want to install Windows on my pc. It has an Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus Wifi (2 I think). After booting into the usb, the first thing that showed up was the screen saying "A media driver your computer needs is missing". So naturally I looked it up on the internet and found a couple of possible solutions.

  • Using a usb 2.0 port for the usb drive (which doesn't work because I only have 3.0 ports, atleast I'm like 95% sure)
  • Changing the SATA mode to AHCI (it was already set like that before and didn't do anything
  • I also flashed the drive again with a newly downloaded iso image (also didn't do anything)
  • Secure boot was already turned off
  • Downloading SATA drivers from my motherboard's website and putting them on a different drive (The drivers were incompatible and now, the drive doesn't even get recognized anymore could that be because it being ntfs?)

Does anyone have any other possible solutions? Help is greatly appreciated

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  • Lawrencepp's avatar
    Lawrencepp
    Copper Contributor

    Re-download the Windows 10/11 ISO using the official Media Creation Tool and recreate your bootable USB. Sometimes, a corrupted ISO or faulty media causes installation issues.