Help installing Windows 7

[depotman]

Trying to install a fresh verision of Win 7. Keeps telling me it doesn't have drivers for my cd/dvd rom. I put the drivers on a thumb drive, and when I try and search for them they don't show up on the thumb drive.

Is it possible the cd/dvd drive is not win 7 compatible. Drive is a Sony DRU800A. I tried using another older Cd drive and same thing happened.

Wondering if I need to buy a newer drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[sivart]

Do you have an external hard drive that you could make bootable and install from there? Would not have to worry about the drive and would install much faster.

 

[depotman]

No unfortunately I don't but I do have two internal HDD installed. One with Vista on it that I am going to whipe completely with a fresh instal of Win 7.

The other with XP on it with all my backed up stuff.

Not sure why the driver I put on the thumb drive for the cd drive doesnt show up, but other folders do. Including both hard drives.

Technically if the drive was win 7 compatable, win 7 should already have the drivers it needs, right?

 

[Steltek]

The Microsoft website says the drive is Win7 compatible and that Windows has a built-in driver for it.

https://www.microsoft.com/Windows/c...c=Storage Devices&sc=CD/RW / DVD/RW&os=64-bit

Does the drive work with your present Vista install? If so, I'd wonder about BIOS settings.

 

[depotman]

The Vista install is one from another computer, I was just using the hdd for a fresh install onto it. The drive was being used on XP however.

For whatever reason my version of 7 did not have drivers for it. All good because I had another cd drive laying around which did work so I'm up and running now.

Thanks for all the replies. Now to just get my SB Audigy SE working. Probably just going to buy another sound card.