How to install SP Flash tool/Mediatek preloader USB Vcom driver for Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10

How To Install SP Flash Tool / Mediatek Preloader USB VCOM Driver For Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10

Download and extract MediaTek USB VCOM Drivers For Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Go to Device Manager >> Action >> Add Legacy Hardware as shown below

Select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list and click Next

Select Show All Devices and hit Next

In the next screen, click on Have Disk in the bottom right corner and then navigate to the drivers you extracted to your computer. The drivers you need are located in the Windows 7 folder. For x64 PC choose usb2ser_Win764.inf and for x86 PC make use of usb2ser_Win7.inf then click OK

Once the driver loads, select MediaTek Preloader USB VCOM Port in the next screen and click on next.

An error in red that says Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software will pop up. SelectInstall this driver anyway and the installation of the MediaTek Preloader driver will start.

Now you can proceed to flashing your MTK based Android phone with ease using SP Flash Tool.

After successful installation, I got the error – This device cannot start. (Code 10) as circled in the image above and there was a yellow triangle beside the MediaTek driver under Device Manager as shown below.

I simply ignored them as suggested by someone and ran SP Flash Tool which finally worked.

So guys, just give it a try and if it works for you too, please please leave feedback below. If it doesn’t work, do please make sure you followed the instructions properly.