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All of the people yelling at him and telling him its a bad burn need to STFU because you ARE WRONG!

There is a known issue with the Windows 7 (x64) installer. First of all, this installer does not run in 16 bit mode like older XP installers so it needs a different driver than the good old IOATAPI.SYS. What happens is when the windows installer OS (not the Windows 7 OS installeed on a hard drive but the pre-boot environment) has a problem when BIOS reports SATA is the primary boot controller and you are trying to install from IDE DVD-ROM. You will be able to boot the Windows 7 installer DVD from the IDE DVD-ROM but after it gets to scanning your hard drives/install media, you will be prompted for the drivers for the IDE DVD-ROM. The funny part is that this DVD-ROM will work for booting off of with no OS installed yet and it will work after Windows 7 is installed but it will not work for the Windows 7 installer pre-boot environment. This is called a crap job by Microsoft and its not a bad burn. It's too bad you guys are like my co-workers; 90% of you are idiots that don't know sh!t other than how to make noise and criticize; may you all day painful deaths.

My trick was to temporary install a SATA DVD-ROM to install Windows 7 and then pull the drive after the install. What a PITA.

Sorry to have to tell you, but...

I have 2 SATA hard drives in a RAID0 configuration.

I have 1 IDE DVD RW drive.

Windows 7 installed on my computer with no issues whatsoever.

Now call me an idiot if you like... but I did manage to install Windows 7 without any additional drivers, nor did I have to install a SATA DVD-RW (though I'd like to at some point) to do it. It simply worked. I used a retail upgrade copy to install.

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sycogoat wrote :

i am having the same problem;

have tried 64bit, 32bit, 2 sata dvd drives, and an IDE drive, all iso's have been burnt at 1x.... nothing works.

its my 3rd download now, direct from MSDN.

running out of ideas... short of buying a 4gb usb drive.

any usefull comments greatly appriaiated, but microsoft should not be releasing this with this issue.

I think I may have figured this out. I too have been fighting this, when I try to install from within XP Home I get dll errors, and when installing from booting from DVD I was getting the CD/DVD driver errors.

I tried to follow all of the posts that said that the download or image or burn was bad, to try again.

What NONE of the other forums or postings said was to try a DIFFERENT program. I had been using MagicISO -- it has worked fine for other things, but I was able to run it in ImgBurn using the verify function and it WORKED.

Maybe it is common knowledge to try a different program. Maybe there is a setting in MagicISO that would have caught these errors. I'm still a novice at most of this. I don't know, but I FINALLY got it working!! This was a legit download from the MSDN Academic Alliance program for students.

Now what to do with these other 5 bad DVDs that are no good......coasters anyone??

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hi!

i HAD the same problem. yall are all brobably using your old ide drive out of your old computer.
go buy a $30 windows 7 cirtified sata dvd rom! it worked for me. i also think if you can find a windows 7 driver for your crappy dvd rom from your old computer and put it in when prompted, it would work.
good luck! and happy putering.

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Ok, I was having the same problem of asking for a driver - to no avail of finding one. I tried to boot from both the ide and sata dvd/cd rom, but I was setting the the dvd/cd drive as the first boot drive in the bios.

So, I set the sata hard drive as the first boot drive
Then set the dvd/cd drive as second boot drive
Then boot to the boot menu, and select sata dvd/cd drive
(in my case thats where windows 7 pro was), and it finally went thru completely without asking for a driver for the dvd/cd drive.
don't give up!

Message edited by cputrade on 04-17-2010 at 09:49:04 PM

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Dang, some of you guys are way mean-spirited. Have you been tweaking windows so long that you've lost some of that newbie sense of adventure and anger and being p/o'ed because you get twenty different answers from ten different people and you are looking up to them as authorities because they have a title on a tech website? Lighten up folks....love and peace,

complearning123

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lol

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Well I am having the same problem. I don't think its a burn problem. I have installed this windows 7 twice before on the same machine with the same hardware setup without any problems. I never activated win 7 after the installs. I kept having problems finding The win 7 drivers that I needed. So I would just reformat and go back with XP until the drivers were more readily available. Now that I have the drivers that I need, I can't get the install to go. From what I see here, there are allot of theories, but no definitive fix or answer. The fact is that it just doesn't make sense for it to have worked twice before. Then with no changes made to the system, and am using the same Identical DVD, that now I'm getting this stupid dvd driver message. BTW, I was installing the 32 bit version. not the 64 bit version. And still getting the message.

Message edited by mikeh77586 on 05-20-2010 at 01:24:44 PM

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Janis Operative wrote :

Windows 7 either doesn't contain the necessary drivers for the CD/DVD drive or the drivers are not signed and that is a major glitch. Expect this to be corrected in the next service pack.

I ran into this problem as well where I couldn't start installation until I found these drivers. One way to get past this problem is to first backup everything you want to keep and format your hard drive with a Windows XP installation disc or from another computer.

Then install Windows XP. After XP is installed, run the Windows 7 installation disc from your fresh XP desktop and choose not to upgrade.

All the Windows 7 files will then be copied by XP who seems to trust your PC components better than Win 7 and installation shall complete on it's own.

I already had Windows Xp prof SP3 installed. It didn't make any difference.

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mobi555 wrote :

Have solved problem. Apparentely there are dvd burners and hardrives that are not 64 bit compatible. MS has a win7 compatability list at their site. Changed out dvd burner for el cheapo (30$) sata model and voila! Luck be ya'll.

Well I am trying to install the 32 bit version and am getting the same message.

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For those of you still having trouble with this, try downloading the ISO with Firefox instead of Internet Explorer... worked for me.

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