red onion
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Hi,
I was trying to install WIN 7 on a HP DV9000 that just had a motherboard transplant. 7 refused to install, saying that I was missing drivers for the CD/DVD. I tried the Vista drivers that were on a flash drive, but none worked. I tried both 64 and 32 bit versions. Nothing worked. Win XP-32 went on no problem, or need for drivers. But the soundcard refused to install.
I was able to re-activate the hidden restore partition, and re-image the factory install of Vista. It now runs fine....but I was just curious as to why 7 would not install and XP would. I am just a little embarrassed that I could not put 7 on there Does anyone know why WIN 7 would balk at a CD driver when XP did just fine?
I was trying to install WIN 7 on a HP DV9000 that just had a motherboard transplant. 7 refused to install, saying that I was missing drivers for the CD/DVD. I tried the Vista drivers that were on a flash drive, but none worked. I tried both 64 and 32 bit versions. Nothing worked. Win XP-32 went on no problem, or need for drivers. But the soundcard refused to install.
I was able to re-activate the hidden restore partition, and re-image the factory install of Vista. It now runs fine....but I was just curious as to why 7 would not install and XP would. I am just a little embarrassed that I could not put 7 on there Does anyone know why WIN 7 would balk at a CD driver when XP did just fine?