Windows 7 Install Problems

Shadows1990

Shadows1990

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I've been wrestling this one for quite a while, with no real progress, so I thought I'd ask the all-knowing OcUK for advice.

Here's the problem:
My housemate is currently running XP (Service Pack 3, x86) and wishes to try out the Windows 7 before paying out for the retail copy.

His specs are as follows:

Mainboard: MSI K9N6SGM-V
Hard Drive: Western Digital IDE 40GB
Optical Drive: Tried many different drives including fairly recent LG, Pioneer drives all of which meet the requirements for the install.
RAM: 1GB of DDR2 533MHz Kingston

I can get it to boot from the disk fine, but when it gets to the setup screen, it asks for a missing device driver for the CD/DVD drive.
AFAIK, it doesn't actually need the driver for the drive, but the interface it's connected to.
I have downloaded the drivers from the MSI site for the mainboard, and after a long delay, the setup displays that it can't find any new devices to install to.

I have also tried changing some stuff in the BIOS, but it doesn't seem to want to work.

Any ideas?
 
Burn the DVD at a slower speed and try installing again. Wasn't that the solution for people having this problem?
 
dr4g0nf1y said:
try downloading that testing program or let microsoft scan you to see if it detects any conflicts :)
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.Have run the compatibility program, and nothing came up.

Daegan said:
Burn the DVD at a slower speed and try installing again. Wasn't that the solution for people having this problem?
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I always burn ISOs at the slowest speed possible (in this case, 1x).

Thanks for the replies, but I have solved it by using an old hard drive to boot from that instead. I copied the ISO over to the external drive using UltraISO which worked perfectly.
 
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