Installing Windows 7 OEM - CD/DVD Driver Missing

[Wiseau]

I recently purchased a custom built SVS1511C5E. Soon after I then purchased a Samsung SSD, I understand that most people would normally clone their original Vaio drive but I found this to be more trouble than it was worth as Norton Ghost was having trouble recognising partitions on the original drive and more importantly I wanted to get away all of the Vaio's bloatware.

So I opted to install a fresh Windows 7 using a genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM DVD. I fitted the SSD, got to the Windows 7 install screen, selected my language, the installer progressed for a couple of seconds and then stopped and complained about a missing CD/DVD Driver with the option to browse and select the driver.

I've tried attaching the original drive via USB and selecting numerous drivers from c:\windows\system32\driverstore folder but with no success. I even ran the installation from a bootable Win 7 USB drive but it still complained about the missing CD/DVD drivers.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated as I'm running out of ideas and hair to pull.

Cheers

Tommy

[anthony0579]

Sorry Tommy I do not have an answer to this but am having the same problem and so just wanted to try and get someone to post a solution.

Anthony

[Blencogo]

It doesn't look like any users here can help, so you may need to talk to Vaio Support.

I presume you have tried loading the Intel Chipset Drivers and the SATA drivers onto a USB drive and browsing to this location when the system asks for additional drivers?  However, I would expect Windows 7 to support these natively.

What is the exact screen message you get?

[vadik123]

Yeah, Norton Ghost is not the best tool for cloning HDDs. Use Acronis Disk Director to clone the entire internal HDD to the Samsung SSD with all of its partitions.