Missing CD/DVD Drivers?

[Guest]

I'm trying to do a clean install of Beta 2 64-bit. After clicking on
Installat Windows, I get the following message.

"A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a floppy
disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now. Note: If the windows
installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this
step.".

Once I click OK, I get stuck in an infinite loop of "No device drivers were
found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers,
and then click OK."

Is there anything I can do to get around this issue? I've tried locating
64-bit beta versions of my DVD ROM drivers for Vista but haven't found any.
Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

I had that same error too
Try putting a windows XP disk into the computer, it worked for me.
Windows XP fixes Windows Vista

 

[Guest]

Unfortunatley that didn't work. It's not even checking the DVD drives after I
click OK to see if there's a disk. It kept trying to check the floppy drive
until I disabled it in the BIOS.

 

[Guest]

After some searching an some tinkering, I seem to have found the problem. My
ASUS motherboard has one IDE channel, and two EIDE channels that use ATA
ATAPI drivers. Since my DVD drives were on the EIDE channels, once the
installer loaded, it lost all knowledge of these channels since there were no
drivers. After moving some stuff around to get my primary HD and DVD on the
same IDE channel, setup works fine.

 

[Guest]

I have an ASUS laptop with the same symptoms--couldn't find DVD driver during
setup and no CD/DVD drive shows in the device manager. Any tips on IDE
channel tinkering or something to get the drive visible?

Thanks,
Riccardo

 

[Guest]

Well, my eventual solution was to just re-cable my drives so that one DVD-ROM
and my primary HD were on the same chain. Once the first part of the install
was complete, I put everything back the way it was and it all eventually
worked out.

With your laptop you might not have that option. Check out Asus's download
section. You may be able to find some ATAPI drivers there for your laptop.
Unfortunately you'll have to put the drivers onto a floppy disk or a USB
flash drive. CD isn't an option since it doesn't know about the drive yet. I
tried this approach with mine but got some unexpected results. It took the
driver and knew what it was. It just didn't find the DVD drives. The weird
thing was that one of the drives was now searchable to locate additional
drivers, but as far as the installer was concerned, it still didn't exist.
Don't understand how that works exactly.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Keith for the tips. I did some searching around for ATAPI drivers,
updating Vista from Microsoft, searching for remedies to errors, etc. and in
the wee hours turned in. Somehow little gnomes were at work that night
because the next morning I booted up and the system recognized my drive and
had assigned a driver to it. I don't get it because I had rebooted a number
of times before. Wish I had a solution that I could pass on to others but...
Cheers.

 

[Guest]

Try this, it worked for me. My Asus P5LD2-VM m'board came with a CD with
utilities etc. One menu option is " Make ITE8211 32/64 bit IDE driver disc"
(floppy). Do this (or download drivers from Asus site and copy to disc). The
disc then contains the various driver versions in folders (eg Windows XP). To
get the Vista installation to recognise the files, you need to select the
right set (Win64, in my case) and copy them to the root directory of the
floppy. Insert the floppy when prompted and you can load the driver, and
installation will continue. Good luck.