Hi, I'm having hard time trying to do clean install of Windows 7 64-bit on ThinkPad W700. It is the W700 version with CPU T9600, NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M and without color calibrator and digitizer. I bought W700 second hand and I don't have any Windows installed on it, no recovery CD/DVD included.
It seems clean install should be perfectly supported and even recommended way to update from XP to 7: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-74108 I have legal digital copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, I downloaded ISO from my MSDN subscription and followed the guide on how to burn it onto DVD or USB key. I have checked SHA1 checksum to confirm the ISO is not corrupted. Whatever media I use, I always get the same error message shortly after I hit "Install Now": "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing" or "A media driver your computer needs is missing" error message when you try to install Windows by using a Windows installation DVD or ISO file" Here is screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/8233748712/ I tried many different workarounds, official ones by Microsoft like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2755139?wa=wsignin1.0 http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/48cdc51e-affc-40ec-a0ba-62d37948843c as well as various ones like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuC83DEdwu0 or burning new copies at slower speed, resetting BIOS defaults, setting AHCI or Compatibility mode in BIOS, switching RAID on and off, even using different hard drives (swapping between original HITACHI 160GB and new Seagate Momentus XT 720GB). Unfortunately, nothing helped. Does anyone know a reliable workaround for this issue? I think it may be required to get the Lenovo recovery disk, but on the other hand Lenovo describes (link above) clean install procedure, which does not require it. In case I will need recovery disk, does anyone know how can I obtain it? I'm not asking for illegal copies of Windows, as I do have lots of legal licenses, but it's a matter of working around technical issues. BTW, I have installed Arch Linux 64-bit on this machine without any problems, almost everything works on Linux like a charm on my W700 (apart from proprietary NVIDIA drivers, but that's another story). Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
