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I'm trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Win7_Ult_SP1_English_x32.iso) on a newly wiped laptop using a bootable USB key I made with Rufus. However it's going straight from "Setup is starting..." to
"Load Driver
A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step."
This laptop doesn't even physically have a CD/DVD drive; there is no disk tray! This is ridiculous! Help!
James
Posted 2016-06-09T00:34:09.810
Reputation: 25
if you use the flash drive on an USB 3.0 port inject the USB 3.0 driver first into the Boot.wim: http://superuser.com/a/863555/174557
– magicandre1981 – 2016-06-09T04:26:05.047I got as far as the second step. This is what I'm putting into command prompt: – James – 2016-06-09T23:38:15.090
additionally not specifying the driver .exe and leaving it at '\USB3' yields error 0x80010105 DISM failed. No operation performed. For more innformation, review the log file. – James – 2016-06-09T23:52:27.833
you have to extract the Exe. DISM only accepts extracted driver with INF + dll + sys files in a folder – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-10T04:40:06.320