Dave

well if ya read the post above its happening because vista is not picking up
the second ide i have a media center pc great piece of crap way(gateway) and
i have the same problem ya need to connect the hd an the cdrom or dvd rom to
the same ide cable and it will pic it up...unfortunately for me i have no
room for moving cables and im kinda stuck until i can find a solution
"Lasancmt" wrote:

> PS Maybe I should be more clear on where to find your drivers. Look in the
> motherboard instalation manual under 'Chipset' and who manufactured them.
> Then go on that manuafacturer web site and see if they have new 64 bit
> drivers for vista available, download them and burn to CD.
>
> If your DVD reader is not recognised, try swopping it for another one. I had
> problem with an LG DVD player, but when I swopped it for a SONY overcame
> that hurdle. M.
>
> "Lasancmt" wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem. Mine was a new PC with a RAID 5 configuration.
> > I hadn't realised the each ofd the Raid disks had a power on button I had to
> > push so an LED came on. After that VISTA recognised the drive. It still asked
> > for the updated driver though. I found one on the Intel driver web site for
> > my chipset and Vista. I burned them to a CD which I inserted at the moment
> > you talk about and they were installed ok and the installation process
> > continued only to crash 20 minutes later with a diferent error 0x8007045D.
> > Windows cannot install required files. No-one has been able to help me with
> > that one yet. Its hard work I agree :-(
> >
> > "gbergh" wrote:
> >
> > > When I select install on Vista I get the following message:
> > >
> > > "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver
> > > floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB Flash Drive, please insert it now"
> > >
> > > My CD/DVD drives are standard IDE drives, so I can't imagine they need any
> > > special driver, and I don't have one anyway. What the hell are they talking
> > > about!!!?? And people think Linux is hard to install...