Re: Win 7 on Vostro 1700....

I would try burning the iso at a slower speed.

"Wee Jinty Hopper" <jinty.hopper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qshNl.26606$OO7.3351@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well, I'd intended on writing some sort of review of my experiences of Windows 7 on a Vostro 1700 laptop (4GB ram, 256mb graphics card, 160gb hard drive and T7100 1.8 core-2-duo processor).

Alas, the install falls over after about four minutes with a curt "a required CD/DVD device driver is missing".

Excuse me? The DVD is spinning away quite happily? And I've been using the drive under Vista (how do you think I burned the Win 7 ISO image FFS?).

Microsoft seem quite determined to go from the sublime to the ridiculous with their operating system install routines.

XP had the ludicrous hard-coded "SATA drivers can only be installed from the a: drive" even though most pcs were no longer shipping with a floppy.

Vista had the memorable "Windows cannot find a suitable volume on which to install". Sorry mate, no extra help, you're on your own.

And now this.

If Billy Gates didn't have 24hr armed security, I think I'd walk upto him and kick him in the bollocks. Hard.

Thank you for reading.


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