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Windows 7 Help! (Installing)

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Sin100
Right, let me bring you up to speed.
I was trying to run my boot disk for ages and failing, I finally took the master pin out of my hard drive and placed it in my DVD drive and BIOS now sees it as a drive
, so, the disk ran and I am now up to the installation stage and I get this message..

LOAD DRIVER
No device drivers were found.
Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click ok.

Is this due to my hard drive master pin being pulled out (to be used on my DVD drive) or something else? what drivers? I thought everything was on the disk, seems a bit silly.
I can't seem to find a straight answer on the net.

Any help?
Thanks.
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GodofGrunts
You don't need drivers for IDE.

What are you doing to get to that step?
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MrPriest
It sounds sorta like the old school MSCDEX drivers for a CDRom drive are needed, if I remember right. Try booting from a, <shudders>, floppy drive and load the MSCDEX drivers for the CDRom? Just a thought.
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Powelly
Did you burn your own CD or did you buy retail? A common error I've heard with burning your own disc is burning at the fastest speed which messes something in the install up (don't ask me how) and people have fixed it by burning at 1x speed.
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Sin100
I burned two different ISO's (one from my university and one straight from Microsoft) at X1 speed, both of them get this.
Also my HDD is a SATA.

What I am doing is putting the CD in, any key to boot, then wait about 10mins then a language selection box comes up, I select English then this comes up after around 10 mins of thinking again.
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Powelly
Oh, that's a shame. Looks like you've done the right things with the disks, is there any other system you'd be willing to test them on to prove it's not actually the disks?
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MrPriest
Is that CDROM sata or IDE? If IDE, you'd need cable selection and/or the pin to be correct. I would imagine that the pin on the sata drive would be for sata I or II, not master/slave.
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GodofGrunts
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Originally Posted by Sin100
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I burned two different ISO's (one from my university and one straight from Microsoft) at X1 speed, both of them get this.
Also my HDD is a SATA.

... SATA has jumper pins?
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NITRO1250
What you could do is set up an external hdd (if you have one) as a Windows 7 installer drive. Google installing windows 7 on a netbook for directions.
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LemonSlice
Sounds like the installation disc doesn't have the driver needed to see your hard drive? Assuming this is at the hard drive selection page.
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Sin100
Yeah but the weird thing is on the installation page I can see and explore both my hard drives, it gives me the option to browse for the drivers, but what drivers? I have no clue! if I could find them I could put them on my HDD and select them on the installation screen.

Also, I said my HDD was SATA because someone above asked if it was SATA or IDE.

My pin on my DVD drive is set to master and doesn't share with anything else.
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NITRO1250
Have you tried taking the pin out? I've had issues before unless the pin is removed for some odd reason.... Just another thought.
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Sin100
You mean the pin from the DVD drive?
Well if I take the pin out of the DVD drive then BIOS cant read the drive so I cant even boot from the disk.
I took this pin from my HDD so I'm wondering if I need another pin to go back into my HDD??

Man this is doing my head in!
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NITRO1250
Basically, none of my 5 Sata HDDs have pins in them. I have various ones from Seagate, WD, and Hitachi. Might be worth a try.
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Powelly
Try installing it on a separate rig to see if it's not the disk.
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Sin100
Ill try find my Nero disk and burn using Nero if I can find it.
As for using the disks on a different system, well, I dont have one
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GodofGrunts
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Ill try find my Nero disk and burn using Nero if I can find it.
As for using the disks on a different system, well, I dont have one


IMG Burn would be fine.
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