Do you remember if this is a GPT or MBR disk? Please boot into Windows normally and then the following commands sequentially in an elevated Command Prompt:
Please provide a screenshot or copy/paste the output in your next post. Just looking back over this thread, I noticed that you mentioned that the Driver Store directory was missing for the said driver.
Could you please open the registry editor and then navigate to the following key path:
Rich (BB code):
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\PnpLockdownFiles\%SystemRoot%/System32/drivers/pciidex.sys
Please copy/paste the
Source value in your next post as well. You also wish to attach the setupapi.dev.log too, which can be found in the following directory: