Vista installation cannot find a CD/DVD driver

[clickynext]

When I try to install Vista Beta 2, immediately after the screen where language/location is chosen, it gives me this error message:

Load Driver

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.

Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step.

Then after I press OK, which is the only button, it reads the floppy drive and then repeatedly pops up this message with the only button to press being OK:
[QLoad Driver

No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK.[/quote]

If anyone could give me any assistance on this matter, it would be great. Really do want to try Vista, but obviously the experience isn't too good so far. 🙂 Thanks

 

[ColKurtz]

You could try running it in a VM. It's the only place I've ever installed it and I've never seen any erros. If you have access to a server OS (Win2000, Win2003, linux server distro) install VMware Server (free product) and install it in a VM. If you want to run it in a non-server workstation, you can then copy the VM you created to your workstation and run it in VMware Player (also free).

If you don't have access to a Server OS, you could use VMware Workstation -- but it's not free.