Vista Install needs DVD drive driver?!

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Hi,

During the first part of the Vista install (clean install) it requests a
device driver for the DVD rom drive. This is the same drive as I booted the
install disc from. What device driver????? THe drive doesn't require one, adn
in addition, it is already using said drive. What gives???
 
Hi,

Forgot to add: the chipset is the VIA KT333 chipset for the AMD platform.
The DVD ROM drive is MASTER on the secondary IDE controller, and is a
standard, single-layer, DVD-ROM drive. There is only 1 HD attached, as MASTER
on the primary IDE controller. It boots OK and I even get to selecting my
country, but after this point it generates a message:

"A CD/DVD drive deice driver is required. Please select a device driver. It
is safe to remove the install disc for this step."

I can get past here due to the fact I have no drivers (there never were any
for anything). I find it very odd that a device that install is already
using, suddenly requires a driver, when on no OS that I vcan think of, a
device driver has been required specifically for the drive! Chipset I could
understand, but this is plain weird.
 
Why isn't there an edit function???

Typo: I CAN'T get past this point. I have to abort the install.
 
About a million of us have run into the same issue. I'd bet that you have an
NEC DVD drive. They won't work, especially if its more than a couple of
years old. I'd asked in this forum if you could use the generic DVD driver
that XP uses for the NEC drives, but no one ever answered. I ended up using
a new Sony drive from another machine and it worked fine.

Good luck,
John
 
I agree this is the problem. I have seen this once trying to use a virtual
cd/dvd drive also. It means you are a no-go with that drive. The fact that
your XP supported the drive is why you were able to start Setup with it, but
Vista is telling you that once it reboots it will not be able to find the
drive again to continue reading from it.
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
I agree this is the problem. I have seen this once trying to
use a virtual
cd/dvd drive also. It means you are a no-go with that drive.
The fact that
your XP supported the drive is why you were able to start
Setup with it, but
Vista is telling you that once it reboots it will not be able
to find the
drive again to continue reading from it.
Click to expand...

I’m having the same problem, but it’s on a completely wiped HD, so
there is no way Vista hasn’t detected the drive.... it’s already read
from it, and gone through the first step of install.
I did notice one thing though, it says something about "If you are
using the install media with this drive, you may safely remove it"
meaning remove the drive, or the media? Cause when I remove the disk,
it still asks for the drivers. And when I shutoff and reboot without
the dvd drive attached, it just says no bootable OS.
I do have a drive that I could use, but it’s REALLY old, but I did let
a buddy borrow it to install Vista on his system. I’m just hopeing
that this doesn’t mean that vista doesn’t support my DVD-RW.
 
I had the same problem and i managed to solve it, the solution:

1. run the setup in windows xp, at the same piont you will be able to see
the missing driver listed on the bottom(next to "load drivers").
2. get the latest driver you can find, save it on the HD and browse for it
during the setup.

I was missing a driver for my intel board`s RAID

btw: the setup wont accept the driver during a clean booted install.
 
I have, in fact, that very same drive.

I still get the Vista RC1 wanting me to find a disc with the driver.
 
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