Windows 7 Install Saying it needs DVD Driver?

[Inferno0032]

I'm using an LG GSA-H42N on this machine, and it's asking that I get a driver for it, only I cannot find one, any advice?

This took me by surprise, so any help appreciated!

EDIT- would this be fixed by updating the firmware? On MS's website it says that this DVD drive is fully compatible, I'm confused. I have another disc around, should I try that one?

 

[ViRGE]

This has to be the most frustrating errors there is for Win7. People complain about it periodically and the solution is never the same one twice. It has been everything from faulty RAM to a bad SATA cable.

If you have access to a 4GB USB flash drive, I would seriously suggest copying the Win7 installer to that and installing it that way.

 

[Inferno0032]

This has to be the most frustrating errors there is for Win7. People complain about it periodically and the solution is never the same one twice. It has been everything from faulty RAM to a bad SATA cable.

If you have access to a 4GB USB flash drive, I would seriously suggest copying the Win7 installer to that and installing it that way.

Thanks, what I'll likely do is just pull another DVD drive out of another computer and see if that solves it for me.

Thanks again for your help and your time!

 

[bankster55]

Your Win 7 install DVD may be corrupt - do a MD5 check on it

 

[Inferno0032]

Your Win 7 install DVD may be corrupt - do a MD5 check on it

I've used each of them before on separate machines, they worked fine, and tried two discs, and both behaved the same.

 

[bankster55]

As was said these things can be hard to diagnose
I'll throw out some random thoughts

Well you could just put your Southbridge (chipset) drivers on a floppy (what you used to do with F6 in XP) when it asks

You could try another OLDER brand SATA DVD burner
I believe the LG came out after Win 7 RTM
You could try an IDE burner

Your burner port may be set to AHCI (Native IDE) and your HDD ports to IDE emulate - legacy, or something along those lines
Every bios is dif and some allow setting of each pair of ports
AHCI/native/RAID needs Southbridge drivers, legacy doesnt
A big question is whether it recognized at boot up screen?
Opticals should always be plugged into highest numbered ports

Could also just be a bad burner or cables not fully inserted
Try the LG in another PC

I also got that message one time when working on a friends PC
Turns out his piece of crap computer had just enough juice to run everything, but when burner was used it took just enough extra juice to wreck things.

Heres a thread with same prob on Win 7 RC, but it applies anyways
Discusses several possibilities
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257-63-driver

Edit: Heres another with Vista
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...p/thread/4d906f85-7650-4eff-8bd2-13ec2b0bd2ae

 

[Inferno0032]

I'm using an IDE drive, my current plan is to disconnect the IDE drive and take my SATA drive from my other computer, as this current computer has worked for a couple years. But I hope that works, will prolly and will update you when I try it tomorrow!

Thanks much for the help and your time guys!

 

[Inferno0032]

Sorry double post

 

[bankster55]

Hope you are still there
You posted while I was editing my reply
Check out the second link

You didnt say - is the drive recognized in bios bootup?

Edit: It didnt even occur to me that anyone would buy an IDE burner in 2010 😳

 

[Inferno0032]

Will do, running XP currently, thanks so much, helpful info!

 

[Inferno0032]

FYI, I plugged in a SATA DVD drive from my other computer, and it went flawlessly, thanks for the help guys!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I had this problem with some Dell PC here at work. Swapped in a drive from another machine and it works. Same model drive and PC. For some reason, the drive just didn't want to work with certain PC's, but worked on others.