Friday, May 22, 2009

Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Installation - A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing

After I've selected Time & Language, Keyboard Layout (at the first step of installation), then I got the message "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and the click ok" at the "Select the driver to be installed" screen (which is the second step of installation).

My computer is installed with Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 currently. I'm planning to reinstall 7100 over it.

I've previously installed Windows 7 RC on another Compaq Laptop, which means the ISO and the DVD that I burn is fine.

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Solution 1

http://www.evga.com/forums/printable.asp?m=100677004

Had same problem installing vista ultimate 64... had to use a legacy DVD drive on IDE channel... even after vista installed, it still wasn't reading both my blueray drives on SATA (They are both on the red SATA ports).

Problem is you need the JMicron drivers.

The JMicron SATA controller drivers can be found at:
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/R1.17.48.12.zip
For eSATA control please download the following:
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/R1.17.48.12_eSATA.zip

Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 to Windows 7 RC Build 7100 -What you need to know

Source: http://tr.im/m0Fo


  • Download the ISO as you did previously and burn the ISO to a DVD
  • Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build)
  • Browse to the sources directory
  • Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad
  • Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For
  • example, change 7100 to 7000
  • Save the file in place with the same name
  • Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed



Warning: It is not recommended to upgrade from Beta 7000 to RC 7100.

If you manage to upgrade, can post a reply at http://tr.im/m0G6

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Dont Forward That Funny Email


Got this from Gizmodo. Gosh, hate those forwarded mails which flood my email account last time.


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

future of search engines?

Yahoo Vows Death to the '10 Blue Links' http://bit.ly/10mw23

Yahoo! and Microsoft feels the only way to win market share and search is to change the playing field and do things differently...
IMHO, this is so not going to work. People use search engine to find relevent links to website that contains information that they need.

If we were to look for
Restaurant reviews - hungrygowhere.com
Movies review - imdb.com, wikipedia.org
Maps - maps.google.com, maps.live.com, (local) gothere.sg
News - bbc.co.uk, channelnewsasia.com, sinchew.com.my
General information - wikipedia.org

It is hard (if not impossible) for a single website to provide all the different type of information that users need. That is also the main reason search engine exist - to help users consolidate and filter all these websites, so that user can find the all the relevant links in a single place.

Google remains at the top search engine today because of its fast and effective search engine. Besides, there smart processing of users' search input, e.g. automatically display currency conversion, math calculation, word definition, news, videos, image result, makes the search engine more lively.

For me, what I like about Google Search is its clean design and the accuracy of search results (which other search engines cannot achieve).