Windows 7 Install : A required cd/dvd device driver is missing

daTanmay

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I own a ASUS K55VM-SX086D laptop. I have been using Windows 7 and a Ubuntu with a dual boot. I updated my Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 and thats when evrything went downhill.
Firstly my Windows failed to boot, and after a lot of effort I managed to manually rebuild the bcd and got my windows to boot. But in the process somehow the partition with the Ubuntu was wiped, So installed Ubuntu 13.04 using a live USB. Now neither my Windows nor my Ubuntu wouldn't show up in the boot options. I tried to rescue it with the boot-repair tool in Ubuntu but nothing helped. Next I tried to reinstall windows using a live USB, but that didn't help as i got the following error. "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing." I gave up and deleted my Windows and Ubuntu partition, merged them into one and installed Ubuntu 13.04 on it. I tried to run the Windows 7 USB again but the same error keeps showing up.

I have verified that there is no problem in the live windows USB, by using it on another laptop. I have also tried the SATA:ACPI and the SATA:IDE configurations but nothing seems to work.
 

daTanmay

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I tried the setup procedure with all of the USB ports (including 2.0) but nothing changed.
I have installed ubuntu and windows 7 quite a lot of times earlier but never came across this problem.
 

daTanmay

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Tried that too. the error message comes back the next time too...

 

daTanmay

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I tried it with a DVD instead of a live USB and it worked but the windows that was installed did not support any drivers. Not even USB, WLAN, or LAN. So I had to transfer the drivers I had in my portable hard-drive using a live Ubuntu USB. After that i could install all the drivers.
 

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