Can't Install Windows 7 On HP Elitebook

[mrallanson]

I have an HP Elitebook 840G3. The hard drive was completely wiped. I have tried to install Windows 7 and I keep getting the error "Load Driver - a required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, USB, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now." This laptop doesn't even have a CD/DVD player in it, and I don't know what drivers it's looking for.

 

[Snipergod87]

Known issue with older Windows 7 install media, try using a version of Windows 7 with SP1 pre-installed.

 

[mrallanson]

The installation drive has SP1 on it.

 

[Snipergod87]

Hmm every time I encountered that I just used updated media.
Do you have access to the Windows 7 downgrade disk that came with the laptop, that will surely work with that laptop.

Might want to read through this:
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/Installing-Windows-7-x64-Enterprise-Elitebook-840-G3/m-p/5642120#M442523

 

[mrallanson]

Actually, after some snooping around I found this website

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Support/Utility?kw=windows+usb+installation&p=1

and selected the USB Installation Tool for AMD series motherboards. It downloaded a ZIP file and after I extracted it, ran a program called Windows Installation Tool and I added the USB files to my USB drive that has Windows 7 on it. I re-tried the installation and as of this writing it's running like it's supposed to. So we'll see how things turn out.