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Installing Windows 7 OEM - CD/DVD Driver Missing
I recently purchased a new Sony VAIO. Soon after I then purchased a Samsung SSD, I originally intended on cloning the original VAIO drive but I found this to be more trouble than it was worth as Norton Ghost was having trouble recognising partitions on the original drive and more importantly I wanted to get away from all of the Vaio's bloatware.
So I opted to install a fresh Windows 7 using a genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM DVD. I fitted the SSD, got to the Windows 7 install screen, selected my language, the installer progressed for a couple of seconds and then stopped and complained about a missing CD/DVD Driver with the option to browse and select the driver.
I've tried attaching the original drive via USB and selecting numerous drivers from c:\windows\system32\driverstore folder but with no success. I also booted back into the original drive and used Double Driver to backup the DVD driver and then tried to use them during the install. I even ran the installation from a bootable Win 7 USB drive but it still complained about the missing CD/DVD drivers.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated as I'm running out of ideas and hair to pull.
Cheers
Tommy