

and voila! No change at all, same darn error. "Try installing from something that's not USB." - Umm thanks? OK so I found an old hard drive, put it in a USB dock, used dd on the Mac to put the Windows ISO onto the hard drive, undocked the hard drive and plugged it into the SATA bus of the new PC and booted from it.

"Try changing your BIOS settings." - I fiddled with everything related to USB and storage (AHCI, EFI, EIEIO.) and this didn't change the behavior at all.

My new motherboard has a nice selection of USB 2, 3.1, and 3.2 ports and I even tried doing this through the keyboard USB port replicator and an external hub. "Move the USB drive to a different port before or during the install, that will surely fix your problem." - This did not have any effect for me. "Don't use USB 3, you cannot use USB 3 for Windows 10 install." - This is just not true in my experience, nonetheless- switching to an old usb 2 thumb drive did not change the behavior. The internet suggests the following ways to resolve this: "A media driver your computer needs is missing" is the error I received. Long-time Apple user here wants to play PC games, so I've built a sweet rig, bought a license of Windows, downloaded the ISO, and tried to install it.
