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"I am not able to pass the DVD driver missing screen during the beginning of Windows 7 installation.
I want to install Windows 7 Professional with SP1, x64."
"When I get to desktop, I see two drives:
C:\ Which is a boot partition of appr. 500 MB and
X:\ Which is a USB flash drive."
Your post is confusing. On the one hand you say you can't get past the early stages of W7 installation, then in your next post you say you see 2 drives "at the desktop". You can't get to "the desktop" until you are fully booted.
You should not need to install any drivers until the installation is completed. W7 provides its own generic drivers especially for a device like a DVD ROM. You do not need to to install drivers for USB 3, chipset, etc until after boot-up. SATA drives are supported at XP, let alone W7. There's no such thing as primary master, secondary master with SATA. That's old IDE technology that disappeared 10 years ago. I don't understand why or where you're seeing this.
Your 3TB drive is not supported by MBR. You should be in UEFI mode in your BIOS, not legacy mode. MBR cannot support disks larger than 2GB. I'd disconnect the 2TB drive for now. So switch to UEFI in your BIOS to do the installation, and make sure Secure Boot is disabled as well. Check your DVD ROM is first in boot order then save settings. Then go ahead and see if you get the same error messages.
Last edited by bendipa; 28 Mar 2018 at 19:11.