Windows Vista Installation Help

Bunko · 9 Nov 2009 at 19:33

Hi guys, I have an Altos G330 MK2 here that someone wants Vista home premium installed onto. It has a sata dvd drive which seems to be causing problems when installing as it comes up with 'a required cd dvd drive device driver is missing' straight after hitting 'install now'.

Is there any way around this as I am not too sure what to do. I have an IDE dvd drive I would use but no IDE slots on the motherboard! Cheers

davethe11 · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:11

you could try forcing your sata drive to be treated as an IDE drive, just looked in my bios and i have these settings:

Sata configuration -> Configure sata as
Advanced -> Onboard devices configuration -> Pata Controller mode

you should have similar settings (your BIOS vendor may not be the same so have a poke around), try setting them to IDE.

theheyes · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:11

What disc are you using? Is it an official disc or a burned iso?

Bunko · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:16

davethe11 said:
you could try forcing your sata drive to be treated as an IDE drive, just looked in my bios and i have these settings:

Sata configuration -> Configure sata as
Advanced -> Onboard devices configuration -> Pata Controller mode

you should have similar settings (your BIOS vendor may not be the same so have a poke around), try setting them to IDE.

Thanks for that, will have a look around for that sort of thing

theheyes said:
What disc are you using? Is it an official disc or a burned iso?

Official vista home premium disc

theheyes · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:25

Hmm, I had exactly the same error with Windows 7 and it turned out to be a corrupt iso. Can't see this happening with an official disc though so probably not the issue in this case. Sorry can't help further.

Bunko · 9 Nov 2009 at 21:13

davethe11 said:
you could try forcing your sata drive to be treated as an IDE drive, just looked in my bios and i have these settings:

Sata configuration -> Configure sata as
Advanced -> Onboard devices configuration -> Pata Controller mode

you should have similar settings (your BIOS vendor may not be the same so have a poke around), try setting them to IDE.

Just had a look in the bios and can't seem to find anything like this in there. It is a very limited bios, do you know if I can definitely do what you suggest?

davethe11 · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:55

could you let us know what bios it is and the version number if possible, sometimes there are hidden options that require certain key presses to reveal, my bios definately has this option and i have used it in the past, though i dont remember why now.