Get Help with Your Hardware Device

Get Help with Your Hardware Device

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Unable to continue the hardware information upload process

A problem has occurred with your hardware information file and we are unable to process it. This process cannot continue without this information. If you wish to complete this process, you will need to try installing the device again by accessing the Add New Hardware wizard.

Start the Add New Hardware wizard.
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You may want to contact the manufacturer and ask them to provide a driver for this hardware device.

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The wizard was unable to find the necessary software for your new hardware.

Help and Support Center can now record your hardware profile to assist with future support. This is done automatically by reading the identification number that the manufacturer has encoded in your hardware. If you want, you can see the contents of the file that contains this information. This information will remain confidential--see Microsoft's privacy policy. Using this information, Microsoft can query for any available details on the hardware manufacturer's Web site.


This information will help us provide:
  • Improved manufacturer support for new hardware installations in future versions of Windows.
  • More supporting software for you to download from Microsoft Web sites.
  • Links to other Internet sites that carry software or support information for your new hardware.
Click Cancel to end the wizard. You may want to contact the manufacturer and ask them to provide a driver(software) for this hardware device.
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