Thursday, June 23, 2011

Missing DVD device drive when installing Server 2008 x64 or Windows 7 x64

I have had major problems when trying to install Server 2008 x64 or Windows 7 x64 whene it tells you that a DVD driver is missing.

Many options online to try to resolve this issue has been found, but none of them works.
Some are related to the raid configuration, some related to bad download of the OS and so on... but the real probelm is from Microsoft itself.

Exactly what it is, might be unknown, but the problem only occurs when you try to install a 64 bit version of Server 2008 R2 without SP 1 or Windows 7 without SP1.

All other versions are fine, so if you have Server 2008 SP2 or R2 with SP1 (which you can download now from Microsoft), go ahead and enjoy a problem free (or one less error) installation.