

- SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL INSTALL
- SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL UPDATE
- SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL DRIVER
- SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL 32 BIT
- SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL UPGRADE
I have since given up trying to install it on the Vista Business and put it fresh on an old AMD using machine with a 1.8Ghz CPU and 512megs of memory FRESH. Given the public beta release and the numbers who may attempt to do as I have, you can see there is the chance of thousands of users facing the same problem I did if not rectified.
SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL UPGRADE
So, if we look at numbers here, there are literally MILLIONS of Windows users, a lot of whom (business, some home users) will want to UPGRADE install W7 on top of their Vista SP1 (or later). If there were a spot in which I could tell it that it is to look at other media for the driver, I would never have had to start these threads.

It tells you to go install updated drivers for the Sata drives, there being no updated drivers of course and it quits and that is basically that. It just refuses to install (upgrade version).
SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL DRIVER
When it errors, either before the error or after, it does NOT ask for a driver to be installed from some other media or from some other location on the same hard disk. The error is that W7 requires sata drivers for my normal non-raid sata drives (2 of them) which work happily with Vista. The purpose for this an another thread I started just like it was to find out if you can UPGRADE INSTALL and the answer is NO you can NOT in this case.
SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL 32 BIT
W7 wll *NOT* upgrade from Vista Business SP1 (obviously 32 bit and definitely a 32 bit machine) at all, however it WILL fresh install and wipe out anything. The answer to this problem is that there is no answer short of a program change to fix the mistake. To end this thread THIS is definitely the answer and not the others so marked: I disable antivirus and pull out all USB items before attempting to upgrade. I also went into BIOS and everything was right there but I took the time to change BIOS to force it to load the disk drives using IDE master and slave instead of using normal Sata and it didnt make any difference to the upgrade.Īny help appreciated. So how do I make my SATA drives something that W7 upgrade can see? My vista SP1 can see them. I have since gone on a look for specific drivers and have found nothing useful. I did check, the first time, for updated drivers and there are none.
SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 FRESH INSTALL UPDATE
It says, then, that it cant continue, open control panel and update the drivers. You get no F6 or any other option to make it LOOK for drivers at all here. It goes through the compatibility check and then stops and tells me I need to update drivers and tells me the drivers needing updating are the disk drives. All the uther blah blah comes up and you agree to sell your first born to the man with cloven feet and horns on his head then you get to the section where it gives you the opportunity to upgrade or fresh install. I started the DVD and the install window came up and I clicked on install now. I downloaded the W7 beta and burned the ISO to a DVD and inserted that while still in Windows. I have Vista Business (32 bit for clarity) SP1. I found that driver on the Asus Support pages for Z170 Pro Gaming (it's in the Intel USB 3 package).Īnyway, it's now booted into Win 7 and is downloading Windows Updates.I know I posted this in the correct forum but there are no answers there at the time I post this so I thought I would try here. Then when the install complains about "missing driver." I browsed and used this driver (on another USB stick):

My last attempt now (looks like it has worked) was with a Rufus created Win 7 USB stick with the USB 3 drivers. So then tried using Rufus (both GPT/UEFI and Legacy BIOS) with and without the USB drivers from the ASUS DVD + Win 7. To eliminate a faulty USB stick I installed Windows 10 using the same stick and it worked fine. I get as far as "Extracting files 100%." during the Win 7 install but then nothing happens (tried 3 times). Using a optical SATA drive with Asus DVD + USB stick with Win 7 I get a bit further. The tool completes but when using the USB stick I either get no USB 3 support (meaning I cannot use keyboard/mouse) or I get the message in this thread "missing driver.". Using the Asus tool to create a USB stick does not work (tried the tool both on a win 8.1 and a Win 7 32 bit PC). I've spent quite a few hours trying to install Win 7 on a Z170 Pro Gaming today.
