Some hardware, such as sound cards or modems, cause the following error message at the end of their driver installation
An error occurred during device installation.
The data is inadmissible.
Fix security problem in the registry
This is a security problem in the Windows registrationwhich you can rectify as follows:
1. Click in succession on Start/Execute and type in the command line regedt32 in.
2. Now navigate through the registration points HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI and select the last folder PCIas shown in the picture.
3. Now click in the top bar on Edit/Authorization and select the entry System. Check whether under Allow two crosses are present, as shown in the screenshot.
4. Klicken Sie jetzt auf Erweitert… und entfernen Sie das Häkchen vor Berechtigungen übergeordneter Objekte…. Die nachfolgende Meldung bestätigen Sie mit Kopieren.
Machen Sie aber auch noch ein Häkchen vor Berechtigungen für alle untergeordneten Objekte… und klicken Sie auf OK.
After a restart, you can easily continue the failed driver installation.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
