Like Windows OS, the device driver on your computer is also updatable. But, an update is not a good thing all the time.
For example, after upgrading the device driver, you find an issue occurs or the new driver is incompatible with the current Windows OS. Or perhaps, the driver update doesn’t solve the issue you want to get rid of.
If something unexpected happens after updating a device driver, you may want to roll back the driver to its original version. Do you know how to roll back a driver on your computer? The feature, Roll Back Driver, will come in handy.
This feature is available in all Windows versions. You can find it in Device Manager. You can use it to uninstall the current version of a device driver and then automatically install its previous version.
In the following guide, we will show you how to use this feature to roll back a device driver.
When you upgrade and install Windows 10, some update problems always happen. According to user’ reports, they have encountered the “device not migrated” error. This error won’t show up on the computer screen like usual errors but you can go to Device Manager to check the properties of the device and see it under the Event tab.
In the information section, you can see much information on the error and know device was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match. The device not migrated error may happen on a USB device, hard drive, Realtek High Definition audio, etc.
When you connect an external drive like an external hard drive, USB stick, memory card, SD card, etc. to your computer, the device will push the driver via the USB port or you can choose to manually install the device driver through an external medium.
After the device driver is successfully installed and loaded, the connection between your PC and the external drive is established, and you can use the device normally.
However, sometimes, you may find that you can’t use the external drive as normal without receiving any error message. In a situation like this, you can go to Device Manager to check the status of the device and find out what the problem is.
If everything is OK, the message in the Device status section is This device is working properly.
However, if there is a problem, you can find an error code in the Device status section in the Windows Device Manager.
Take the following Device Manager code 38 as an example. You can see that the Device status shows you the information on this error:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)
The driver could not be loaded because a previous version of the driver is still in memory.
Top Reasons for Error Code 38 Windows 10
To help you better understand this Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware code 38 error, we summarize some main causes as follows:
The hard disk is turned off when the computer is idle.
The USB drive is in trouble.
The USB controller driver is not installed correctly.
The USB controller driver is corrupted.
The USB controller driver is outdated.
The USB controller driver has interfered with some third-party programs & services.
And more….
The full name of MTP is Media Transfer Protocol. It is useful when you need to transfer your data between your computer and your Android device. However, if your device is not installed properly, the connection between your Android device and your PC will be disabled and you will be unable to transfer data between these two devices.
MTP USB Device Failed
MTP USB Device Failed is a common issue that is caused by the MTP USB device driver issue. It always happens when you want to connect an Android device to your computer.
You know when you connect an Android device to your PC, Windows will first install a corresponding driver software for your Android device. In this case, it is a MTP USB device driver. From the above image, you can see that Device driver software was not successfully installed (MTP USB Device Failed occurs because MTP USB Device Driver failed).
In this article, we will talk about how to fix MTP USB Device Failed/MTP USB Device Driver failed. There is more than one solution. If you are not sure the exact reason for this issue, you can try these solutions one by one until you find the suitable one.
How to MTP USB Device Failed?
Check the connection between Android and PC
Use Command Prompt
Modify the registry settings
Install the MTP Porting Kit
