John Alexander Rowley » missing drivers http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com computer specialist and online marketing professional Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows bootable disk driver issue http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/windows-bootable-disk-driver-issue/ http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/windows-bootable-disk-driver-issue/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:46:10 +0000 John Alexander Rowley http://www.johnalexanderrowley.com/?p=419 After downloading Windows 7 from MSDN Academic allience (blog to come soon) I burnt the ISO to a disk and went about formatting to install and test it out. However, shortly into the installation process an error message appeard stating that the drivers for the disk-srive (which windows was reading the disk from) couldn’t be found.

Again, google was my first source, but there were a lot of possible solutions but required a second CD drive and alterations to the motherboard (RAID related) which I didn’t perticularly want to do.

My solution was to re-burn the installation DVD using MagicISO (previously used Nero) and set the ‘mode’ to “Mode 2 / XA”. I also burnt the disk at a slower speed (x16). Reformatting again I awaited the dreaded error, but to my supprise it didn’t come up. Instead it went streight to the disk partition stage! Success!

I’m not sure if it was in fact a faulty disk or the burn method – Either way the installation completed perfectly and I’m now running Windows 7. Try MagicISO if all else fails, it just seems to work!

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