What I ended up doing is giving up on windows 7 and instead installed windows 10.').Ĭoming up with a working solution took more time than anyone else should ever have to invest in this issue again. Reports online did not sound promising, e.g.: 'No device drivers were found' error when installing windows 7 on new computer ' FINAL EDIT - If you're here for answers, while nothing here worked for me, that doesn't mean it won't work for you, so I suggest you try everything here if you can.
Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK. ( As it turns out, the problem is caused by a missing USB 3.0 driver, so installing via USB floppy, CD/DVD, flash drive, etc was not possible.)īrowsing for a driver on the virtual X: drive returned:
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now. While attempting to install Windows 7 on a Dell Optiplex 3040 Micro, the following error appeared:Ī required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing.
Windows 7 install error: 'A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing' # Windows 7 install error: 'A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing'
