During install "required CD/DVD drive device driver missing"

When trying to install Vista Home Pro, early in the installation a dialog box
appears stating that a CD/DVD rom driver is missing and that i have to
install it before i can do anything else. It gives me the option to install
the driver by browsing the drives on my computer.

I thought that nearly all DVD rom devices were just universal. The device
seems to be working fine considering that if it wasn't I probably wouldn't be
able to have gotten this far as the only DVD rom drive in my computer is the
one running the vista program install in the first place.

I guess my question is...how can i get around this, is there a place where i
can just find a driver to install by using a flash drive. As i can tell there
is no way to get past this screen without quitting the entire installation.
Any thoughts?

BTW this is a new build I booted directly from the Vista installation disk.
The HDD does have an old XP install on it but i planned on just deleting it
when it gave me the option to do so, but haven't gotten that far yet. Thanks
for any help.

I've had similar issues when loading operating systems using nVidia's
chipsets. You could try a) going to nVidia.com and downloading their
latest driver for your chipset OR b) try slipstreaming the SATA/RAID
driver into the installation media and burning a new disk with it
included. nLite is my tool of choice for handling this. You need to
download and install nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/) on a working
computer with a CD/DVD burner. Then, gather your original installation
media, the SATA/RAID driver for your particular system, and a blank
CD/DVD. Step thru the wizard in nLite and when finished, you should
have a fresh installation media WITH your SATA/RAID driver already
installed. Just fire up the installation and Windows will do the rest.
HTH


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