Its asking for a driver?

[MadnessRed]

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

 

[zigzag3143]

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

 

[MadnessRed]

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?

 

[zigzag3143]

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

 

[zigzag3143]

ISO size

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

 

[MadnessRed]

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.

 

[zigzag3143]

driver issue

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

 

[MadnessRed]

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.

 

[WindowZ]

Did you use vLite like I did?

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

 

[MadnessRed]

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?

 

[antalgebra]

definitly download again. Win7 is 6+GB compacted and around 12 after install. Let us know how it goes after trying again...

 

[MadnessRed]

lol its says 2.4gb on the downlaod window, is that bad?
1 day, 3 hours remaining -- 76.3MB of 2.4GB

 

[kattana]

i had that exact same error using a brand new 22 speed SATA DVD burner drive.

i had to take it out and use my very old IDE DVD drive to get windows installed.

once installed though, the new DVD drive works well within windows 7.

was weird that it would boot from the drive and start to run the setup, but then not be able to be seen for installing though.



SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223F - OEM

thats the make/model of the DVD player that had the install issue, though works fine once installed

 

[MadnessRed]

OK, I downloaded again, and when I ran it said disk error, anyway I restored grub and then added an entry for Windows 7 telling it to make that partitin active when loading. Now it says "Cannot frind BOOTMGR"

ps, I should say it seemed to install fine when I ran it, it was only the install rebooted the computer that this happened.

 

[Guy Scharf]

What kind of DVD player are you using? I have exactly this same error, using a Samsung SH-S183L SATA unit. I've seen other reports of this failure with SATA Samsung devices.

Can anyone confirm that Win 7 install disk works with any SATA DVD player?

 

[MadnessRed]

I redownloaded the iso and it fixed that error, but I was also getting hte error frmo virtual box, try with virtual box and see if it work there, if you get the same error download again.

 

[antalgebra]

BOOTMGR/NTLDR is missing errors is common in two scenerios:

Bad bits in the downloaded ISO or burned image; a side effect of using ISO's from the internet, rather than mfg'd DVD's.

Any reboot during critical OS install points. A fix is being looked into for this, so that the boot loader sequence only gets changed once, breifly at the end of install; but won't post until launch.

 

[MadnessRed]

interestingly for no apparent reason, both windows 7 and windows xp decided that they would install perfectly with no errors, both were giving disk errors after the first reboot previously, well im happy, many thanks for the help