Dear Fernando/Forum,

My 3TB Hitachi Desk Pro is recognized by Windows 10 device manager but is is not recognized by Disk Management. To be more precise, it is unknown in Disk Management thereby incapable of being initialized. See the error message below.



Background info
I have had this issue since I first upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and now on the latest Windows 10 (v.1703) (OS Build 15063.138). It works flawlessly on Windows 7 and on Apple OSX.

I have pretty much spent a lot of time gathering information about this, trying everything to find a solution.
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What I have learned & tried
Fortunately, your USB 3.0 drivers provide the closest thing to a solution. However, after a few minutes after I installing your drivers, the HDD begins to disconnect when I attempt to use it. It gets worse whenever I unplug and plug it back in or restart the computer. At this time, as I attempt to copy a file etc., after a second or more later, it disconnects then reconnects, interrupting the read/write process.

See a full video showing what happens in spoiler.

Motherboard - Gigabyte H110M-DS2
OS - Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)

>32bit Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.1.38 mod+signed by Fernando< (>MIRROR<)

Driver is installed, but regrettably USB does not work.
Get the error in Device Manager - "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
Exist other driver for Win XP and HardwareID= VEN_8086&DEV_A12F?

Wow, I may have found the issue that was causing my HDD to disconnect repeated with your drivers. I will confirm this after using it for a couple days. Thanks Fernando! Your drivers are working perfectly now. :-)

@Fernando,
Last red line typo : v5.0.3.42 for the modded version.
After the W10 'upgrade' (via "Windows10Upgrade9252" application) from 'RS1' to 'RS2' do we have again to apply Certification ?

Fernando is right you cannot mod the Intel USB 3.0 drivers to work on XP. They never made any for XP to begin with so that already makes it impossible to modify since it never worked for XP. I did try modifying a Z77 Intel USB 2.0 driver which worked on XP but it does not work on Skylake in my initial tests. There might be a way to mod it successfully but I don't have the time to keep testing it so I recommend you look at my guide and purchase a cheap $7 USB card off eBay which allows full functional USB ports with Windows XP drivers.

Here look under my XP installation guide under [USB 4 Port CARD] spoiler:
[Guide] Integration of Intels AHCI/RAID drivers into a Windows XP/W2k3/W2k CD (46)

Hi Fernando and thanks for your and others work.

About moded Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.3.42.

Can you help me, how to upgrade from moded v5.0.1.38 ?

I dont want to use DPInst set.
I would like to upgrade classically via device manager. Drivers only.
I can find appropriate places for
Controller Driver = Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller
and
Hub Driver = Intel(R) USB 3.0 Root Hub
in my device manager,
but i cant find right place for Switch Driver. Im sure last time i updated it from generic MS driver to intel v5.0.1.38 aswell.
Or should i roll back to MS generic and update from MS generic to v5.0.1.38 (now i will use v5.0.3.42 ofcourse) as you described in 1st post under intel driver spoiler? (After you edited post with v5.0.3.42, it's gone).

Many Thanks to Fernando for making these Intel Win7 drivers available for Windows 10!

My system is an ASRock Q2900 (Intel J2900, DEV_0F35) with Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Creators Update 15063.138 installed. (No UEFI used)

My problem with the Microsoft drivers for the Intel USB ports is, that I can either use my USB devices (like mouse and keyboard) for accessing the BIOS and when using MSDOS or FreeDOS drivers (when the BIOS setting is "Auto") but not in the Windows boot manager or on the Windows desktop until I start a script with "DevCon Rescan" - or I can set the BIOS to "Smart Auto" and then it works under Windows but no more in the BIOS or with DOS.

My hope was that your modded Intel drivers could fix this problem and I won't need my selfmade script with "Devcon Rescan" any longer to activate my USB devices under Windows. So I installed your certificates and your drivers and rebooted. But unfortunately, the mouse and the keyboard were not activated for the boot manager nor for the Windows desktop or by my script with "DevCon Rescan".

With a PS/2 keyboard I opened the device manager and found there 3 of your devices properly installed and activated but the USB mouse and keyboard were still not working. I've reverted to the previous installed Microsoft drivers then and the USB devices were activated immediately without a reboot. What can I do to solve this problem?

@Fernando,
This is an update about my story.

So, I'm afraid I'm back to troubleshooting but I have learned something new. The reason why it was working perfectly with your driver was because the system couldn't eject the HDD. Basically, nothing I did could eject it even though nothing was using the HDD. I assume I created a scenario that somehow caused some part of the OS that regulated USB ejections to lock up. As soon as I restarted the machine, the symptoms returned. What do you think about this?

@Fernando,
Post #965 you write "new: 32/64bit DPInst Sets with Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.1.38 mod+signed by me at 04/19/2017"