j_cocker Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) Received my Gen8 earlier today, and have spend the last few hours trying to install the above - successfully so far... ;-( All I want is to have 3 HDDs in the machine - 1 x OS + 2 x data. No RAID setup or anything special - I like to have total control of my backups... What I have done so far is installed a further 8GB of RAM 9total is now 12GB). I also inserted a 250GB HDD in slot one that I wish to install the OS onto. My machine has no CD/DVD installed, so I created a bootable USB stick with Win 7 Ultimate on it. I know it's fine, because I used it with another machine. The installation starts as it should - I click the "Install now", and pretty much immediately I get the dreaded "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk....." error message. When I click "Browse" the USB stick is there (as is the 250GB HDD), but despite selecting it would not continue and returns to the above error message. I have looked everywhere on Google, but cannot see how to get around this... Based on advice online I have so far tried: - I made sure the stick is in a USB2 port, not 3. I also tried different ports - no change. The stick is always visible though. - Created a folder on the installation stick with the RAID (B120i) Drivers (2008 R2), cp024078.exe, as suggested here (http://homeservershow.com/installing-windows-7-on-my-hp-proliant-gen8-microserver.html)- I simply extracted the content of the exe file into a folder, I assume that is correct? Then when the error appeared I directed the search there. but nothing... Any idea how to proceed? Edited September 5, 2015 by j_cocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrf Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I feel your pain. I'm trying to scrounge together a desktop system after a hardware failure. 7 Ultimate didn't like my eide dvd drives, giving the exact message you got, finally it accepted a sata one. But I am having a hard time understanding how it could be spitting the same baloney on you for a usb drive. If it didn't like the disk/raid I suspect you would get a different error text. Is there some driver for a usb 'simulation' of a dvd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cocker Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 I feel your pain. I'm trying to scrounge together a desktop system after a hardware failure. 7 Ultimate didn't like my eide dvd drives, giving the exact message you got, finally it accepted a sata one. But I am having a hard time understanding how it could be spitting the same baloney on you for a usb drive. If it didn't like the disk/raid I suspect you would get a different error text. Is there some driver for a usb 'simulation' of a dvd? Thanks, appreciate your sympathy... :-) BTW, When you mentioned that you'd eventually managed to install Win7Ultimate, did you connect the DVD drive to the Gen8 via SATA, or was it connected via a SATA-to-USB adapter (connected to one of the USB2 ports on the Gen8)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrf Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 it was not a g8, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrf Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 here's a SWAG - perhaps you need a UHCI driver disk, not sure how you would get one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Are you running in AHCI or B120i mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Sounds like a classic example of a storage device missing a driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Just curious, how did you mount the ssd in bay1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cocker Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Are you running in AHCI or B120i mode? I tried with both, ending up with the same error message. Just curious, how did you mount the ssd in bay1? Sorry, perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly enough... I have a SATA 250GB HDD in bay one (the "free" one that came with my N40L), not an SSD. Sounds like a classic example of a storage device missing a driver. I agree. ...but how do I work out which one I need, and where to get it from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Here's how i setup a friends gen8 for win7 Drives in ahci mode mounted win7 iso with ilo remote app booted off it job done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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