[SOLVED] Trouble installing windows
January 27th, 2020
there is no other way to install windows without a CD/DVD drive. But the drive shouldnt need drivers, it should read automatically. Did you chamge the setting in the bios so it boots from CD/DVD?
Well i got a good copy of windows, which i tested on my own computer and run. The problem I am having is I am trying to install it on a friends computer, but there is a number of issues i am facing. His computer is pretty messed up and restarts at random. To make issues worse whoever installed windows last on his computer somehow omitted the cd/dvd rom drivers so i cant just boot my copy upon startup. Is there any way i can install windows without the use of the cd/dvd drive?
shoulndt you be able to do it without the drivers? can you get the cd/dvd tray to eject? if so so put the disc in and then restart the computer
well see thats the problem, his computer has both a cd-rw and dvd-rw drive, and they both respond in the sense that they will eject. however neither drive appears under My Computer. after checking Device Manager there is an exclamation point in a yellow cirlce, and they have “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”
I tried updating them and they say they are the most recent drivers
in addition every answer i have come across on google suggests rebooting with the Windows XP disc, which really isn’t an option as explained above
uyes but it doesnt matter if they are recognised by windows. When you turn off and then on your pc with windows inside it will start afresh and wipe everything. When your are booting up your are in bios not windows. even if you did install the driver for the cd drive it would be wiped anywae
Put in the disc and turn off your computer and then turn it on. It should then give you the options to reinstall. If that doesnt work you could try searching google for boot windows from usb but i dont know much about it.
hmm ill check it out and repost here
in the BIOS configuration (getting here varys – look for ‘press <key> to enter setup’ or similar as soon as you switch the computer on) you need to set the boot order (again, it varys, just look around) so that the cdrom drive boots before the hard drive
when this is done, reboot with the disk in the drive, and press any key when it prompts you
How did you solve it in the end?
well i knew i could boot it from BIOS, the problem i was trying to figure out was how to get the cd drive to appear so i could run the driver backup (portable app in a folder in the .iso) before i wiped the computer clean and save the drivers to a USB flash, since the version of windows i was installing contains no drivers, and his computer does not have the internet so i couldn’t just go and download the program i needed when i was there. i solved this by editing the registry and removing the upper and lower filters of the specific HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM/ CurrentControlSet / etc. which i found out after extensive googling