Windows 7: ATi display drivers Error "the inf was not found"

the error reads exactly as in the title, this may seem like a double thread to someone who has seen another thread i was recently receiving help on, however it is not, this is a separate issue.

my procedure

1.uninstall drivers from device manager
2.use ati installer to uninstall further
3.reboot
4.delete all ATI/AMD files from C: and prog fils / prog x86
5.drivercleaner.net 3.4.5 (ran updater first)
6.reboot
7.update vga drivers
8. reinstalled VCC 12.1 (last stable version on my machine)

bout 30% through the overall percent progress bar, i get a popup that reads "Error: the inf file was not found" despite my best efforts to give it the best case senario.



another fix for this someone gave is, to after this process, un install using the ati installer again and re install again and it should work... nope... people have said it may be a bloatware thing, but the problem is in the driver, not catalyst. im running out of options.

the drivers still seem to be functioning despite this, however, i worry it may be the updated vga and ati drivers from within device manager.

despite the drivers KIND OF still working, id feel more confident if i did not receive this error on installation

uninstall as usually
now goto AMD Driver Autodetect and follow instructions

it recomends 12.2 which was causing me regular BSODs, which is why i looked in my downloads folder for my download of the 12.1 driver from when it recomended THAT for me... also, i have tried this with 12.2, 11.9, and 12.2 preview, all have the same problem

Fixed it... kindof, what i did was

1, start install 12.1 (or whatever driver)
2, click ok on the error and continue the download
3, open device manager, manually update graphics driver from a file on the computer (C:\amd\support\12.1\packages\drivers\display\(###*_INF))
4, restart

all is well again, this wont fix the updater, from what i understand but it will put ur drivers back on track