Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview returns an error

I always get "A DVD driver your PC needs is missing." Then I click "Ok" and "No device drivers were found." pops up.

This occurs right after I select my language and keyboard. How do I fix it?

I'm installing the 32-bit consumer preview on VMware player on a 32-bit Windows 7.

Leo Jiang

Posted 2012-02-29T23:58:21.800

Reputation: 786

Try to look for a guide to get a Windows 8 Preview working on VMware, because there are known problems with trying to get Windows 8 working virtually. It might be that this is only specific to the Consumer Preview, but it's worth looking around none-the-less. – Tamara Wijsman – 2012-03-01T02:33:43.123

works perfectly for me, same setup, using an iso – Journeyman Geek – 2012-03-01T06:32:07.187

I wonder if it's as simple as it's just looking for a DVD rom due to some hard coded expectation, do you not have any DVD roms? If not install a virtual device tool like Daemon tools on the host OS... – Nick Josevski – 2012-03-01T06:33:23.930

Unless you are married to VMWare player, try virtualbox. there is a great guide for the dev preview and consumer preview HERE

– G Koe – 2012-03-01T06:35:20.903

Which VMware version? Some tech blogs report that version 3.14 cannot be used to install and run W8... (but the articles are from last september and the things change fast...). Virtual Box is a good alternative imho. – climenole – 2012-03-01T07:29:10.417

Answers

VMware says it could be a corrupted ISO file: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1032711

Peter Almer Frederiksen

Posted 2012-02-29T23:58:21.800

Reputation: 26

I can confirm that in my case it was due to a corrupted download of the ISO file. The size of my file was not correct; and it gave the error mentioned in the question above, here on my VMware vSphere 5.0.

Use a download manager (e.g. Orbit Downloader) and compare the SHA-1 hash of the downloaded file with the SHA-1 value published at Microsofts download page. (Install HashTab, right-click the iso file and click the tab File Hashes) Or download from msdn.microsoft.com, as they use a buildin download manager which checks the integrity of the file.

Both Windows Server 8 Beta and Windows 8 Beta seems to run without any problems at my VMware vSphere 5.0 here.

Peter Almer Frederiksen

Posted 2012-02-29T23:58:21.800

Reputation: 1

In my case it was an incomplete download by Google Chrome. So effectively a corrupt ISO as Peter said. Downloading the ISO again solved the issue. I used Safari and curl to have 2 horses in the race and they both worked just fine.

Compare the SHA1 hash provided by MS on the ISO download page to ensure you have the whole thing. The hash is E91ED665B01A46F4344C36D9D88C8BF78E9A1B39.

Sami Samhuri

Posted 2012-02-29T23:58:21.800

Reputation: 101