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Hi All

Have a Packard Bell ixtreme PC, the old HDD took the knock, so went to install new HDD on PC the disc boots to the Vista installation screen but when I click install shows "a required CD\DVD device driver is required", so i brouse as the option is there, but cant load drivers as it cant see my DVD anymore.

Have been through many forums and search engines, seems the problem in my case is the sata drivers, alas have looked in bios and cant see anyway of going from raid to anywere

have given basic information as know from giving advice to give a bit till am told what u need, then to give that.

Prays for help as have been on this for a few days.

regards

john

Can you load the driver onto a USB stick and access it from there?

dont have one at the moment can I inbed the drivers in vista sources folder I brouse it that way

It's possible to inject drivers into a Vista image http://www.windowspcguy.net/?p=29 and http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... 28c0597583, but it's quite involved. I think your best bet is to put the SATA drivers onto a USB stick.

If you're really desperate to get it going you could change the SATA mode to IDE, but this won't help if you need to use RAID.

Which model of iXtreme is it?

Unless it's got two HDDs in (possible....with that range) then you don't need to be setup in RAID - AHCI or IDE (might be listed as compatability mode) should be fine in the BIOS and allow the media to work fine.

BG