No matter what I do I get “A required CD/DVD driver is missing". Please help

08david12

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Right first here is my pc specifications,
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter
USB Microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard

Now I am trying to install windows 7 64bit on my pc from a USB and then I am going to upgrade to windows 10. I am doing this from the iso sent to me and I used Microsoft’s tool to put it on the USB. But each time I run the installation I get “A required CD/DVD driver is missing".

Now here is everything I have done to try and solve this:

  • -Mess with the BIOS settings where I have the right boot order; it recognises all my setting; Windows 7 installation enabled; fast boots disabled XHCI hand-off disabled; and legacy USB support set to auto.
    -I have tried every port available and it is defiantly in USB 2.0 ports now and still not working.
    -I tried formatting the ssd and that did nothing.
    -I used a different USB and also tried using msi’s own windows 7 tool which after running for 3-4 hours was still stuck on “setting 1” so I gave up with that.
    -I even tried putting the drives for the USB 3.0, USB 3.1, and SATA on the USB so go with the installation (got the drives off the msi website).
I now have no idea what there is left for me to try I have done so much and put in so much time I’m starting to lose my mind. If you can help me out in anyway at all I will be extremely grateful.
 

08david12

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I was finally able to get passed the problem so if anyone else has it this will work for them until July 2016.
Using my laptop with windows 10 already installed i downloaded this microsoft tool,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
and used this to create a clean windows 10 bootable USB.

I installed this with no problems whatsoever and until July 2016 (when the free upgrades stop) you can use any valid windows product key to activate it.

 
You'll get that message with Win7, if you use a USB 3 port. Win7 doesnt support it from a clean install. Thats why it'll ask for drivers.

You need to plug it into a USB 2 port, if it's got one. Or if there's a legacy option in the BIOS, change it to legacy, then it should work

And that's why Win10 worked, it does support USB 3. And I think Win8 does too
 
you do know all about this deal with skylake builds , right ??

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-remove-support-usb-based-windows-7-installation-platform-specs/

theres a way to work around like this from asrock offers to insert the required driver ??

http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/

good luck