Its asking for a driver?

Hi, I have downloaded RC1 file, finally, and when I tried to in stall it I get an error message about it not finding a driver, I have tried puttin in windows xp cds in the hope that they might have it but that didn't work, I have tried from both real mode with dvd, virual box from both the iso and the real dvd and they all give the same error. I will upload a screenshot.

I have md5'd the iso and I get the following checksum
38048182eb66295555bc46bad565badf

the file is
993.5 MB (1041784360 bytes)

Does anyone have any solutions before I have to re-download the iso, which with my very slwo internet is not somehting I am looking forward to.

Any help would be great.

Anthony

MadnessRed said:

Hi, I have downloaded RC1 file, finally, and when I tried to in stall it I get an error message about it not finding a driver, I have tried puttin in windows xp cds in the hope that they might have it but that didn't work, I have tried from both real mode with dvd, virual box from both the iso and the real dvd and they all give the same error. I will upload a screenshot.

I have md5'd the iso and I get the following checksum
38048182eb66295555bc46bad565badf

the file is
993.5 MB (1041784360 bytes)

Does anyone have any solutions before I have to re-download the iso, which with my very slwo internet is not somehting I am looking forward to.

Any help would be great.

Anthony

madnessred

First welcome to sevenforums.
Your ISO is way too small to be from M$. Your 993 MB, M$ ~2.5. That's probably why the dvd driver wasn't installed. If you know the dvd name and model try getting the driver first. I still dont think you want to use that ISO but if you insist the dvd driver might help

Aagain welcome and tell us more about the problem

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

madnessred

First welcome to sevenforums.
Your ISO is way too small to be from M$. Your 993 MB, M$ ~2.5. That's probably why the dvd driver wasn't installed. If you know the dvd name and model try getting the driver first. I still dont think you want to use that ISO but if you insist the dvd driver might help

Aagain welcome and tell us more about the problem

Ken

thatyou for the welcome, the iso was downloaded from the Microsoft site, but I may have been stopped prematurely, althoguh it did say it had finished, can you tell me where I might find the DVD driver from please?

MadnessRed said:

thatyou for the welcome, the iso was downloaded from the Microsoft site, but I may have been stopped prematurely, althoguh it did say it had finished, can you tell me where I might find the DVD driver from please?

what knid of dvd player? 32bit or 64

Ken

MadnessRed said:

thatyou for the welcome, the iso was downloaded from the Microsoft site, but I may have been stopped prematurely, althoguh it did say it had finished, can you tell me where I might find the DVD driver from please?

You can get the driver but it might be faster and easier to just download it again

zigzag3143 said:

You can get the driver but it might be faster and easier to just download it again

I am currently re-downlaoding it, 18 hours remaining. I just remembered I have the beta install files on my ipod, will they help? They are copied of hte dvd, not in iso format though. I am gonna try installing with them in a bit, need to wait for hte closed source virtual box to finish.

MadnessRed said:

I am currently re-downlaoding it, 18 hours remaining. I just remembered I have the beta install files on my ipod, will they help? They are copied of hte dvd, not in iso format though. I am gonna try installing with them in a bit, need to wait for hte closed source virtual box to finish.

The beta drivers might not be the same as the RC ones. Maybe they fixed something between beta and RC

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

The beta drivers might not be the same as the RC ones. Maybe they fixed something between beta and RC

Ken

ok, well i am re-downloading, its at 54% atm with about 4 hours remaining, getting 93kb/s though which is about 5 times faster than it usually it, probably because its about midnight here, I will resume the download tomorrow so hopefully it will be finished by tomorrow evening.

many thanks for the help, I'l post an update when its downloaded.

Hey I'm new to the forums but I am very experienced with Windows 7 and computers in general.

I used vLite to streamline my W7 installation, and I got that very answer on a previous attempt. If you downloaded the ISO legit from MS, then you just never finished the download. Hope that helps

nooo, I forgot to pause downlaod before closing firefox so it didn't resume :'(, now gotta start it all again. grr, why can't microsoft just put up a basic link so we can use download managers?