Vista - Install cannot begin, says a driver is missing!!!

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...

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...

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...

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...

I had the same problem. I was installing Vista 64bits and it did not
pass the "a required cd/dvd..." stuff. Tried several things, drivers,
etc, finally worked it around by trying a very old DVD-ROM drive (a
toshiba SD-M1712). Vista installed flawlessly with the older drive.

It did not install with a NEC-3540 drive. It seems some NEC drives are
not supported by the Windows Vista 64bits installation software.
Probably other drives won't work too.

After installation it worked without problems with the NEC drive, I
looked into the "drive file details" and is is just the regular
"cdrom.sys" in the driver files. It must be a bug or somthing.

Hope it helps!


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