Windows USB install "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing"

[NekoPanda]

ANY TYPE OF HELP IS WELCOME!

Hello,

I am installing Windows 7 with an USB, I used the Windows 7 USB DVD download tool, and then used the WindowsImageTool from Gigabyte. My ISO key is from Microsoft. I have a H440 case which does not support a CD drive. Hence the use of USB.

I have googled and searched around alot, viewed alot of tom's hardware threads and tried alot of different techniques, for example the USB port swap. None of them has worked.

My USBs are on legacy mode. XHCI is off. AHCI is on. Any questions on what is on/off in the BIOS just ask, and I will answer.

I use a gigabyte motherboard:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5497#ov
^This one to be precise.

Through the Support & Downloads, apparantly I need to install alot of different driver just to install Windows 7. Although I don't quite understand how to install them or where to install them.

I am now stuck and definitely need help to get any further.

Thank you for your answer!

 

[ko888]

Was your USB flash drive plugged into a USB 2.0/1.1 Port (i.e. one of the two USB ports located above the PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse connector)?

 

[NekoPanda]

Was your USB flash drive plugged into a USB 2.0/1.1 Port (i.e. one of the two USB ports located above the PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse connector)?

Yes and no, I have tried every USB port to install Windows, so I guess I have plugged my USB into a 2.0/1.1 port. Although the port is a DAC-UP port. Which I also tried to disable and use the normal USB instead. No progress..

 

[ko888]

Intel SATA Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode) Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive.

Version 14.6.0.1029

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_bootdisk_irst_64_100series.zip

During the Windows 7 installation process it will ask if you want to install any other device drivers and this is where you would provide this AHCI driver.

 

[NekoPanda]

Intel SATA Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode) Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive.

Version 14.6.0.1029

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_bootdisk_irst_64_100series.zip

During the Windows 7 installation process it will ask if you want to install any other device drivers and this is where you would provide this AHCI driver.

Problem is that I can't find the driver after I put it on the USB flash drive. Appearantly windows can't use USB 3.0 and I only have USB 3.0 therefore windows can't find my flash drive or my SSD.. Any idea how I can make windows find it, maybe put it in a folder or something, maybe another flash drive instead of the same?

 

[ko888]

Windows 7 doesn't have native support for USB 3.x or your motherboard's Intel Z170 chipset SATA AHCI controller unless you slipstream the necessary drivers into the Windows 7 install image before burning it to the bootable USB thumb drive.

If you don't have a Windows 7 install image that has the necessary SATA AHCI controller driver incorporated into it then you will have to provide them on a separate FAT32 formatted USB thumb drive plugged into a USB 2.0 port.

 

[NekoPanda]

Windows 7 doesn't have native support for USB 3.x or your motherboard's Intel Z170 chipset SATA AHCI controller unless you slipstream the necessary drivers into the Windows 7 install image before burning it to the bootable USB thumb drive.

If you don't have a Windows 7 install image that has the necessary SATA AHCI controller driver incorporated into it then you will have to provide them on a separate FAT32 formatted USB thumb drive plugged into a USB 2.0 port.

How do I do that? I used the Gigabyte WindowsImageTool

 

[ko888]

Windows 7 doesn't have native support for USB 3.x or your motherboard's Intel Z170 chipset SATA AHCI controller unless you slipstream the necessary drivers into the Windows 7 install image before burning it to the bootable USB thumb drive.

If you don't have a Windows 7 install image that has the necessary SATA AHCI controller driver incorporated into it then you will have to provide them on a separate FAT32 formatted USB thumb drive plugged into a USB 2.0 port.

How do I do that? I used the Gigabyte WindowsImageTool

By using a utility like NTLite you can add drivers and customize the Windows install.

https://www.ntlite.com/download/

 

[NekoPanda]

So I fixed the problem by using this:

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

Finally able to install windows

 

[andrewjhermiz]

Figured this one out today. I had an iso file for my Win7 install that wouldn't work on a Skylake board (it has to do with the new USB interface or something, over my head).

I used this software: http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/
to patch the new drivers into the iso (it created a new iso). Then I used Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie) to create a new thumb drive with the updated iso.

Works like a charm. I've been scratching my head over this for days but this is the one solution that worked.

 

[jaro1234]

had isues with USB method of clean installing win10 on new SSD drive.
after realizing that only fat32 file format of USB will succeed to boot on gigabyte board (GA-965P-DS4) I've got stuck in missing drivers (media, cd-rom, usb - nothing concrete from installer). couldn't find any that would match.
looks like older gigabyte motherboards aren't supported enough so I switched to install from DVD method and all went smooth.
used Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool-Installer-en-US to create DVD from downloaded ISO image.