a media driver your computer needs is missing.

Use one of the following methods to troubleshoot this issue, as appropriate for your situation: The speed at which the installation DVD was burned was too fast. The installation DVD is removed during the setup process.Ī low-quality DVD was used to create the installation DVD. This issue occurs for one of the following reasons: Use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool to create a bootable USB flash drive, and then use the USB flash drive to install Windows. Update the BIOS firmware for your DVD drive.

Use a better quality DVD to create the installation DVD. To resolve this issue, use one of the following methods, as appropriate for your situation:īurn the installation DVD at a slower speed. 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. I've been having this same exact issue all the way through the DP, CP, RP and now that it's RTM still same issue.A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. What is wrong with W8 or what driver do I need. As a matter of fact I even installed Server 2012 on the netbook (as dual boot) so that I could verify it worked prior to installing on a bare-metal server. I have no issues loading the Server 2012 ISO via the same USB flash drive. I've burned it multiple times on the USB drive as well. I've re-downloaded the ISO, the checksums work out. I'm using the Microsoft Windows 7 USB tool.

It's a netbook so there is no DVD drive or media. Actually it would be triple boot since it's got W7x86 & Ubuntu already on there. Trying to dual-boot W7x86 & W8x86 on a Lenovo netbook. Note: If the installation media for Windows is in the DVD drive or on a USB drive you can safely remove it for this step. If you have a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with the driver on it, please insert it now.

This could be a DVD, USB or Hard disk driver. Error on install: A media driver your computer needs is missing.