Hello everybody,
I currently have windows xp pro sp2 on my 1.8 GHz 1 GB RAM computer with 40 GB hard disk (IDE; my computer supports SATA as well but I don't have any SATA drive yet). I tried to install windows 7 (from the hard disk itself - I have two partitions), but I get an error that says "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. Windows needs the driver for device [Primary IDE channel]. Click 'load driver' and load the required device driver."
I cannot find the device driver anywhere. I checked in device manager for the existing drivers of the primary IDE channel and the hard disk. It shows disk.sys and partmgr.sys for the hard disk in c:\windows\system32\drivers folder and IdeChnDr.sys in c:\windows\system32\drivers for the primary IDE channel. When I try to load those drivers in the windows 7 installation, it won't take those files. (the setup takes only the .inf files which were from the windows xp setup folder but none of them is compatible with my hardware; but they were compatible for installing windows xp
).
I meet the system requirements of windows 7 and yet unable to install it. I'd be grateful for any help.
Thanks for your time.
P.S. I have seen similar problems in other threads but without solutions and some of the solutions did not work for me.
kumar
I currently have windows xp pro sp2 on my 1.8 GHz 1 GB RAM computer with 40 GB hard disk (IDE; my computer supports SATA as well but I don't have any SATA drive yet). I tried to install windows 7 (from the hard disk itself - I have two partitions), but I get an error that says "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. Windows needs the driver for device [Primary IDE channel]. Click 'load driver' and load the required device driver."
I cannot find the device driver anywhere. I checked in device manager for the existing drivers of the primary IDE channel and the hard disk. It shows disk.sys and partmgr.sys for the hard disk in c:\windows\system32\drivers folder and IdeChnDr.sys in c:\windows\system32\drivers for the primary IDE channel. When I try to load those drivers in the windows 7 installation, it won't take those files. (the setup takes only the .inf files which were from the windows xp setup folder but none of them is compatible with my hardware; but they were compatible for installing windows xp
).I meet the system requirements of windows 7 and yet unable to install it. I'd be grateful for any help.
Thanks for your time.
P.S. I have seen similar problems in other threads but without solutions and some of the solutions did not work for me.
kumar
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