I beg to differ. My laptop required the IDE drivers (Newer Gateway P4
laptop). Threw them on a disk and the install finished and worked great. It
took a long while to get them working though.
I was doing a dual boot, couldn't find the drivers off the Gateway site, so
I used the Windows XP drivers. Worked this time. Not sure if it would work
for you, though.
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"John Barnes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Vista has all the CD DVD and IDE drivers it needs. Maybe if you were a
> little more specific as to the steps you went thru and exactly when it
> asked for the drivers, someone could help
>
> "s85hx" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:AE6DE9B4-7E83-490F-990A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently purchased Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I come to do a
>> clean install, it asks me for a CD / DVD driver.
>>
>> After reading several topics in here, I discovered that it was looking
>> for
>> the IDE controller drivers. I downloaded the vista ones and put them on
>> cd.
>> It saw the drivers whilst the "dont show drivers that aren't compatible"
>> box
>> was ticked. I selected the driver and clicked next and it came up with
>> the
>> same error message.
>>
>> I then read further on this site, and I was told to try using the old
>> drivers. I tried these and still got the same message.
>>
>> I have searched several sites and cannot find anything specific to this
>> problem
>>
>> Please help...
>>
>> Thanks
>