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Error message about missing drivers when attempting install

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I am performing an install of Windows 7 using an ISO on a USB. When trying to install, I am given the message: "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click ok." Here are my system specs CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor Motherboard: MSI - B250I PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill - NT...

Reinstall Win 7

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Hi, I needed to reinstall my OS on my Acer Aspire 7738g laptop. I have done this before and had only minor issues :-) On Friday I reinstalled it ok and I started to update MS updates and drivers, but something went wrong so I tried all avenues to repair or reinstall? Now I can only get as far as the install window after boot up and if I choose repair it just comes back to window to choose...

Windows 7 Home Premium: Repair Install fails with error

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Hello, I am facing issue in doing Windows 7 Home premium repair install. Microsoft help desk already asked me to reformat the drive and re-install the windows. Don't want to do that because I do not want to lose current S/W setups and accounts that have been created on this machine from last 4/ 5 years. Briefly: ======================

Confusion About Activation on New windows Install on second HD

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Will I have troubles installing Win 7 home prem on a second hard drive and swapping them back and forth for a few weeks... Intel I get the new install perfected. what happens if I go ahead and activate the new install ? will the old hard drive with windows install on it show a invalid activation or will windows just look at the machine ID and view things all the same as it does when I clone...

Solved If I cannot enable Secure Boot, then why use UEFI instead of BIOS?

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For what it may be worth, I have decided to do a "clean install" that overwrites the existing Windows 7 Pro SP1 (fully updated) installation on my computer system, after *(a)* installing a new and different ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura motherboard which supports UEFI, and *(b)* installing a new AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3.0/3.4 GHz CPU instead of continuing to run the 6 y.o. CPU currently installed. ...

Can't figure out how to do a Repair (Upgrade) install

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I can't get Windows 7 to boot (it hangs apparently due to missing one or more dlls and just restarts at the splash screen) or perform either a Startup Repair or a System Restore (even though I have restore points). I've also tried sfc /scannow and chkdsk /f/r - neither of which fixed the boot loop. So I've been trying to undertake a Repair (Upgrade) Install without any success. I really don't...

Downgrade a laptop to Win 7

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just ordered a new laptop, it comes with windows 10 activated, can I install windows 7 on it instead I have my original disc, and will everything work ?

Win 7 UEFI and Fast boot.

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Before I get into my issue, I would like to state I have read many forum posts and none seem to emulate the issue I have been seeing, secondly, I'm new! Hello! NOW THEN..... I have experienced something unusual that I cannot explain. Let me start by saying that YES I know that secure boot is not designed to run on win 7. I had been running win 7 in UEFI, secure boot enabled and CSM...

Win 7 Home Prem DVD driver missing - replugging USB does not work

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The System is Toshiba laptop Win 7 home prem 64 bit. The installation is on USB, it was used on to install once before on an MSI motherboard. The system does not have USB 3 that I can see from the specs so that should not be an issue. The installation quits on the "a required CD/ DVD driver is missing" error. Rescanning and reinserting the USB does not do the job. The USB and its...

Wipe WiN10 & Replace with WIN7 PRO

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I want to replace my flaky keyboard HP Envy Laptop with a new HP Laptop (that only comes with WIN10). I want to replace the WIN10 with WIN7 PRO (which I have the disk). I was told a few weeks ago on this Forum it could not be done with the WIN10 resident drivers. I was also told, {If it were me, I`d pull your W10 drive, put it in the desk drawer and install a solid state drive for W7,...

Install Win 7 on a blank HD

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My old computer had Windows 10 on it and one day it just would not boot to Win10. Long story short, I bought a new computer and now I want to install Windows 7 (64 bit) on the old computer to use as a backup The HD was good as I took it out and I could read it as an external drive (was able to get my data off of it). Now I've reformatted the HD and want to install Windows 7 from a disk with the...

Solved Installing files from Hotfix manually

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I just can not install Windows6.1-KB979155-x64.msu, even though according to the Microsoft website my OS should be compatible. I extracted Windows6.1-KB979155-x64.cab and tryed installing that, but no luck. What if I just extract the files from the cab and put them in the right directory myself?

Laptop Issue- Can't Install Windows from USB

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I've got a HP Pavillion dv7-6b56nr entertainment notebook pc I work at a cell phone repair shop but we also work on laptops. We wiped out the operating system and I tried to install windows 7 from a usb drive. But it cannot find any boot files on the usb drive. I have restored other computers through this usb drive in the past, so wondering why this laptop cannot read it. It starts up as...

"Setup was unable to create new system partition" -- I've tried it all

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I have a machine that has been running Win7 Ultimate for years. lately it's been behaving badly, and it seems the SSD the system was on was starting to fail. So this afternoon I put a new SSD into the machine and went to install Windows on it. I am installing from a DVD, not a USB stick. I have used this installer disc before on other machines, as recently as a few weeks ago. I tried a second...

A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing

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Hi, I'm in the process of re-installing my W7 and ran into this problem. When I boot into the installer from my DVD, I get the error message "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing". I've watched all the videos on the topic and read quite a bit about other peoples experiences. Nothing has helped. BIOS detects the drive. Windows 7 recognises everything just fine. I installed W7...

"windows cannot be installed to disk 0 partition 1"

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Hello, I'm in the process of doing a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium for my Dell Latitude E5530 laptop that currently has windows 10. I was following this video "Windows 7 Formatting and Clean Installation [Tutorial] - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQYIFcSJEa0)" and ran into a problem shown in the pictures Below. What am I suppose to do in layman's terms to complete the...

windows error recovery/boot problem

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system recovery options startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Startup repair offline Problem signature 01 - 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 - 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 - unknown Problem signature 04 - 21199787 Problem signature 05 - AutoFailover

Windows XP installation on a Dell laptop (confusing info )

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I have been trying to install Win XP Media Center Edition 2005 a Dell XPS M1710 .... WHY ? because the laptop will only run on the version of XP that it was originally shipped with and no other version of XP will work ! Dell has stopped all support for Win XP and because this laptop uses XP only there is no support for the machine and all information that was on the Dell web site is now...

Reinstall fresh W7 Pro 64bit - refurb HP from bestbuy

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Went to ms website for w7 d/l typed in code window popped up - validating.....several minutes Error Pre-installed software by hp, contact hp computer is cpl yrs old, want fresh install and clean everything up Sticker on pc where code is says W7Pro for refurb pc

Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files)

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Good evening, I need to reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1. I have tried entering the product key on the bottom of the Dell Inc. Inspiron N5050 into the site... https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows7 ...but it will not accept it.
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