Core Isolation turned off due to WDCSAM64_PREWIN8.SYS incompatibility

Anonymous
2022-09-02T19:09:56+00:00

I have been running Windows 11 successfully on my Microsoft Surface for some time now with no problems.

Within the last day or so, I all of a sudden got a notification that Core Isolation has been disabled due to an incompatible driver, WDCSAM64_PREWIN8.SYS.

From what I can see, this driver is related to Western Digital. However, I do not have any Western Digital devices attached to my Surface, nor have I recently added/installed anything from Western Digital.

I have tried searching for this driver but have come up empty.

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Anonymous
2022-11-28T10:37:21+00:00
  1. Select the Startbutton and type “Core isolation”.
  2. Select the Core Isolation system settings from the search results to open the Windows security app.

On the Core isolation page, you’ll find Memory integrity along with the toggle to turn it on

  • If you receive a notification / message says that the memory integrity can't be turn on follow the below steps.
  1. Try to scan and fix.
  2. If it is not solved, please click on "Review any driver incompatibilities".

3.We can see a driver or more.

  1. Please note the published name here is "oem46.inf"
  2. Select the Start button and type “Device Manager" and follow as shown below.

  1. Select the right driver from Device manager"oem46.inf" and right click and select remove driver.

Example :-

7. System needs to be restarted after removal of the driver.

Hopefully this will solve your issues no need to install any software for this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-18T15:10:47+00:00

    I am unable to find my Original question I had asked about Core how do I get back to original

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-14T17:51:03+00:00

    how do I end this core problem I am satified with the answer how to stop further answers to the question does not show stop

    I had the same issue.
    Go back to the original thread.

    See the word "Subscribe"

    click on it (I know it doesn't make sense)>

    option to unsubscribe will appear.

    click that.

    I just did that, and I'm praying it works.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-14T09:17:24+00:00

    Ok I had this issue and deleted the offending driver via the device manager. Then i go back to windows security and turn Memory integrity on. It says I need to reboot. If I reboot from the security app the machine hangs and never comes back up, but if I manually reboot it comes back up but memory Integrity is still turned off. Thoughts?

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