Solved While installing Win 7 can't find DVD drivers on Vista

[SIW2]

Never heard of that. They usually activate online without any difficulty, in exactly the same way as the system builder keys.

Try it and you will find out.

 

[jak834]

Thanks for your help. Here goes after I run out for food.

 

[samuria]

On the old install putting the 7 DVD in and telling it to search there for drivers should have worked

 

[jak834]

Tried that and it failed. ??

 

[SIW2]

Tried that and it failed. ??

Who are you talking to?

Have you completed the installation yet?

 

[jak834]

To Samurai, he said "On the old install putting the 7 DVD in and telling it to search there for drivers should have worked"

I had tried that and it didn't work.

Just got home so I'll have to go to it tomorrow. Appreciate the input!

 

[jak834]

Looks like it loaded just fine. It won't do Win update. Stuck on a loop there. Least of the worries now that it's at least booted to Win 7.

 

[SIW2]

go to windows update>change settings. Change it to never. Reboot

got to windows update again >change settings. Change it to Check for updates but let me choose. Then check for updates.

If that doesn't work, use dism++ to d/l and install the updates.
http://cdn.chuyu.me/Dism++10.1.1000.80_a17953e8473f7f23592c97f64b25091d.zip

Dism++ is self explanatory - an 8yr old can do it.

 

[jak834]

Doing both "change settings" options worked. Wow, downloading 179 updates.

 

[jak834]

All loaded up. Thow the install disk he bought was bad, the new iso install accepted the Product Key from MS.
Thanks for your help.