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george
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Post subject: Lenovo W520 DVD drivers  Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:36 pm |
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Hi.
I'm trying to setup 2008 R2 workstation on my new Lenovo ThinkPad W520, model 4284-4KG. After I select language preferences and click on "Intall Now" button, a dialog is displayed, saying that the driver for CD/DVD is missing, and ask me to insert a disk with this driver. Does anyone know where I can get such driver? On Lenovo's support site the only thing about DVD is a flash update, but no drivers at all, not to mention the server drivers. Google doesn't help either ;-(
regards
George
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aviv00
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Post subject: Re: Lenovo W520 DVD drivers Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:00 pm |
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maybe try to use flashdrive to install ?
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george
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Post subject: Re: Lenovo W520 DVD drivers Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:44 am |
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Thanks for suggestion aviv00
Unfortunatelly it doesn't help. The next steps were to remove DVD drive from laptop, and to change SCSI mode from AHCI to "Compatible". Again - no result.
rgds, George
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george
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Post subject: Re: Lenovo W520 DVD drivers Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:49 pm |
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Update! Problem solved!
I'm writing now from my new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed on a Lenovo W520 mobile workstation.
I googled a little and found that this problem is common to windows 7 and windows server DVDs and results from bad ISO image or burning errors. So I downloaded fresh ISO from licensing.microsoft.com, using their own download manager. Then I created bootable flash using Microsoft's Windows7-USB-DVD-tool and ... No luck again! And just before I give it up, I attempted one last thing - burned the same image on a DVD using only 2x speed. And .... finally sucess!!! Windows Server installed successfully. After nstalation I turned out that only the USB 2.0 ports are working. My previous attempt to install from USB was on a USB 3.0 port and probably that was the reason for failure on this attempt.
Now I feel that I have a lot of work to do until everything is ready. Probably I'll need more help in the process and I'll let you know if I manage to discover something which my be of value to others.
regards
George
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Sorry for my English...
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