[Windows] Install Fastboot Drivers for Android on windows 8

Install Fastboot Drivers for Android on Windows 8

Posted on November 5, 2012 by johnny

I recently installed Windows 8 on my main working machine and ran in the issue that installing fastboot drivers for my Nexus 7 failed.

Windows driver signing exits driver installation with the following error:

1	"hash check" error

Using the following hack enables windows Test Mode and disables the driver hash check command during driver installation. Open a terminal in administrator mode and exectute the following two statement:

1 2	bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

Please keep in mind that you open your system for unsigned drivers and that you should re-enable driver checks after installing the fastboot driver.

1 2	bcdedit -set loadoptions ENABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF

Thanks for rootzwiki ¹. This should also work for non-nexus devices. If you like you can give me an update if this works for your device.

Notes:

1. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/33222-for-those-having-trouble-getting-fastboot-drivers-to-work-on-windows-8/ ↩