Worked on this for 2 hours before I found this forum and started trying the steps in the comments. I tried Ellen's steps and they did not work, I still received the fatal error. I tried installing drivers on my own from HP's site and just adding the printer via Windows, and got errors from that too. Just plugging in the printer via USB did not start the wizard automatically as it should. Finally I saw Billy's steps and tried them.
Device Manager > go to Universal Serial Bus controllers and open the (+) and choose the HP sounding one. Mine also said "HP Printer (LEDM)" > Right-click > Update driver > I chose search automatically for the drivers and clicked Next through the wizard and was able to successfully install the printer. Thanks so much for this fix!!