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problems installing windows 7

Chacotako

Chacotako

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I'm trying to (re)install Windows 7 64-bit on my machine, but am having difficulty doing so. When I get to setup, it requests a driver from a media device. The driver is unspecified, but I am assuming it is the SATA driver for my chipset. I was able to pull the drivers off the motherboard CD and throw them on a floppy (ridiculous that I needed a floppy to begin with), but this is not working. I'm getting extremely frustrated! I don't remember how I did this the first go around and certainly do not remember having this much difficulty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks
 
What mode is your SATA controller set for in the motherboard BIOS? If it's either AHCI or Native/IDE, no drivers should be necessary on a modern motherboard (famous last words), but if it's in RAID mode you'd need drivers.

If this turns out to be the issue, set it to AHCI mode (as long as you're not using RAID, that is).
 
I have it set in IDE. Either way I got it working. I ended up trying an external optical I had laying around and that did the trick.
 
Chacotako said:
I'm trying to (re)install Windows 7 64-bit on my machine, but am having difficulty doing so. When I get to setup, it requests a driver from a media device. The driver is unspecified, but I am assuming it is the SATA driver for my chipset. I was able to pull the drivers off the motherboard CD and throw them on a floppy (ridiculous that I needed a floppy to begin with), but this is not working. I'm getting extremely frustrated! I don't remember how I did this the first go around and certainly do not remember having this much difficulty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks
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Do you have an operating system already installed on this drive?


I've found that when I do this: I'm able to get the drive to show up.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520

use method 8
 
Typicly swapping the CD drive will fix that like u found. I have seen it do that before with a USB thumb drive plugged in too.
 
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