How to find the cause of an error when installing a driver?

Question

Drivers

Has one driver. For five years it was installed normally - and suddenly it stopped installing correctly on one of the computers. Windows correctly finds it, starts the installation - and gives an error copying a file that for some reason was not found. The file name is not reported.

The driver distribution itself is an archive with three files - ftrusb.cat, ftrusb.inf and ftrusb.sys. Here is a link to download this archive: www.futronic-tech.com/download/FS80_88_90_Driver_2.0.0.1.zip

There is no hope for updating the driver - they have already released the fourth version, which is good for everyone, except for incompatibility with old equipment.

Actually, the question is, how can you get at least some meaningful information regarding this error?

Answer 1

If you need to find the file, then use Process Monitor, there are all the hits.

Answer 2

LayoutFile=Layout.inf not found. INF file contains a textual description of the environment.

Answer 3

www.resplendence.com/whocrashed ?

Answer 4

Read the file c:\windows\setupapi.log from the end

Answer 5

Check if the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ branch has a RunOnce key in the registry?

Answer 6

Look in the inf file for what files are being used for installation. Check the paths listed there.

Answer 7

By the way, try running the DbgView program (you will need to enable kernel event trapping in it - in my opinion, check the kernel capture in the menu) and start installing the driver. Not the fact that it will help to find out, but some more information may appear.