There hasn't been a change in IDE standards since XP that would require any
drivers but the Microsoft supplied atapi.sys and ataport.sys
Just curious what driver you have installed.
"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
news:36390D38-41B9-4F02-9332-33535E437A0C@microsoft.com...
>I beg to differ. My laptop required the IDE drivers (Newer Gateway P4
>laptop). Threw them on a disk and the install finished and worked great. It
>took a long while to get them working though.
>
> I was doing a dual boot, couldn't find the drivers off the Gateway site,
> so I used the Windows XP drivers. Worked this time. Not sure if it would
> work for you, though.
>
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> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
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>
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> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:Omnu1E5fHHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Vista has all the CD DVD and IDE drivers it needs. Maybe if you were a
>> little more specific as to the steps you went thru and exactly when it
>> asked for the drivers, someone could help
>>
>> "s85hx" <s85hx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AE6DE9B4-7E83-490F-990A-6BD9CBD09468@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently purchased Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I come to do a
>>> clean install, it asks me for a CD / DVD driver.
>>>
>>> After reading several topics in here, I discovered that it was looking
>>> for
>>> the IDE controller drivers. I downloaded the vista ones and put them on
>>> cd.
>>> It saw the drivers whilst the "dont show drivers that aren't compatible"
>>> box
>>> was ticked. I selected the driver and clicked next and it came up with
>>> the
>>> same error message.
>>>
>>> I then read further on this site, and I was told to try using the old
>>> drivers. I tried these and still got the same message.
>>>
>>> I have searched several sites and cannot find anything specific to this
>>> problem
>>>
>>> Please help...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>