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**windows7fixer** · 03-01-2009

KCINIMOD's answer is the ‘official’ fix. I tried downloading in IE 7, and reburning disks at slower rates but none of that worked.

I read kcinimod’s post and went to my motherboards website to download the drivers onto a usb disk and loaded them during the windows 7 install. I had a LOT of drivers to select, but I think the important driver was my IDE driver. I have a newer motherboard but my dvd-rom drive is an old IDE drive. So, I noticed that there was an IDE driver which I loaded (as well as a bunch of SATA and RAID drivers). I think the important driver was the IDE driver since my cd-rom drive is IDE.

I really hate posting on forums, but I felt that KCINIMOD’s post was such an important find that I had to post.

If you run into this issue while doing a windows 7 install, copy your IDE and SATA drivers onto a USB disk which you can get from your motherboards website, go to – install now -> repair -> add drivers -> Add all your drivers ( I added a lot) -> Hit the X button on the repair window -> Click Install -> You should be good to go.

(btw, I was using an abit ab9pro drivers are located here: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_driver_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Driver&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=AB9+Pro&pSOCKET _TYPE=LGA775 but I had to select Europe since it seems the US driver links are dead. I downloaded all the SATA driver selections and loaded all of them and it worked)

Thanks again KCINIMOD!!!

03-01-2009	#34 (permalink)
windows7fixer windows xp 1 posts	KCINIMOD's answer is the ‘official’ fix. I tried downloading in IE 7, and reburning disks at slower rates but none of that worked. I read kcinimod’s post and went to my motherboards website to download the drivers onto a usb disk and loaded them during the windows 7 install. I had a LOT of drivers to select, but I think the important driver was my IDE driver. I have a newer motherboard but my dvd-rom drive is an old IDE drive. So, I noticed that there was an IDE driver which I loaded (as well as a bunch of SATA and RAID drivers). I think the important driver was the IDE driver since my cd-rom drive is IDE. I really hate posting on forums, but I felt that KCINIMOD’s post was such an important find that I had to post. If you run into this issue while doing a windows 7 install, copy your IDE and SATA drivers onto a USB disk which you can get from your motherboards website, go to – install now -> repair -> add drivers -> Add all your drivers ( I added a lot) -> Hit the X button on the repair window -> Click Install -> You should be good to go. (btw, I was using an abit ab9pro drivers are located here: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_driver_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Driver&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=AB9+Pro&pSOCKET _TYPE=LGA775 but I had to select Europe since it seems the US driver links are dead. I downloaded all the SATA driver selections and loaded all of them and it worked) Thanks again KCINIMOD!!!
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