Hello All,
I was getting the same error and switching the USB ports did not help me. You get this error because you are installing OS from USB and the OS setup does not contain the required USB drivers. Now the question is - How to provide the drivers? When you plug-in another USB with drivers, it is not recognized because drivers are not there. You will notice that the setup does see hard drive in the system. So, you need to put those drivers on the hard drive so that you can browse them when the OS installation asks for it. Following was what I did and everything works as normal now.
You need a fully functional PC/Laptop and you need another USB drive/pen drive.
Step 1. Download Required USB drivers for the PC you are getting "Missing driver" error from the PC manufacturer's website. ( I recommend getting network / wireless drivers also )
Step 2. We need an operating system to copy these drivers on the PC's hard drive so that we can locate (Browse) them when asked for by the windows installation. This OS should be bootable from USB. Follow these steps :
Use second USB drive and make it bootable with UBUNTU OS (this is what I have used, and it is free! )
a) Use this software http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Get ubuntu here -
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
b) Now boot your PC using ubuntu. Use "TRY" option. You do not need to install this OS because we want Windows.
c) Copy the missing drivers on the hard drive while you are in ubuntu.
d) Exit UBUNTU. Take the Ubuntu USB out.
Step 3. Start Windows OS installation.
Step 4. When you see "Missing Driver" Error, Browse to the location where you have placed the drivers while we were in ubuntu.
Step 5. Windows installation will install USB drivers and proceed forward.
Step 6. After you install windows, you need to connect to windows update so that it gets all the required drivers.
If your wireless or the wired network is working then you are lucky, but if not, How to install the network/wireless drivers? Your answer should be - Use USB drive to install those drivers. Guess what? If you use the USB port now even after windows installation, it is not working. We need to place the USB drivers on C: drive again using UBUNTU.
Step 7. Load Ubuntu, copy USB / wireless / Network drivers on c: drive and exit ubuntu.
Step 8 . Start normal Windows from hard drive. Install USB / network drivers
Everything should work as normal.
Good Luck everyone !