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I have bought a second SATA drive for my wifes AV8 machine and am trying to install Windows 7 Professional x64 as a dual boot with Win XP Pro x32.

The installation starts up OK but seems to hang on the blue scene with the dove. If I eject the DVD I imediately get the 'Install Windows' splash screen. When I select my location and click the 'Install Now arrow' I get to a screen saying:

"A required CD/DVD device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flashdrive please insert it now. Note: If the windows installaton media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step"



It does this whether I have both SATA drives connected or just the new one.

When I try to start 'old windows' with the new drive connected it reboots partway through the windows starting up screen.

The last thing is that I have purchased a student upgrade for my wifes machine (she does qualify ) The media I am installing from is a retail DVD from the early offer - I assume the software is the same and that when I enter the student code I will then be asked for my Win XP code to justify the upgrade status???

Any advice appreciated Saving me some uneeded work would be great , saving me from trashing my wifes machine would save my life

Thanks guys

Mick

Having moved the DVD units cable connection from Slave to Master - all went well with the loading

But then the setup system could not find either of my SATA hard drives

Having disconnected the new drive it booted up fine on the old system... Thank goodness

You need to change the SATA speed to SATA I, that board will not see a SATA II drive. Seagate and Western Digital drives us a small jumper, Samsung and Hitachi drives use a utility called a Feature Tool which must be run on a SATA II capable machine, to change the drive's mode.

Thanks Chris

I downloaded ES Tool from the samsunghdd.com site which since my main PC still has a floppy drive I was able to run by floppy. So it is now a SATA 1.5 - hopefully all will be well now

OK -Thanks - all fine and dandy now

I had a bit of a problem with the ATi drivers for the HD 4670 AGP card tried about 4 different versions before going to the manufacturers website - Powercolor - they have a driver that actually works and recognises the card

So - we're getting there now

Cool. Glad I could help! I really loved my AV8, one of my first "high performance" Abit/ VIA boards. Was probably VIA's best chipset. But I gave it up when I went to PCI-E. A freind still has it and it runs great for him.