{"id":370,"date":"2021-09-03T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/windows-7-windows-7-installation-missing-drivers-17427-html"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:00:01","slug":"windows-7-windows-7-installation-missing-drivers-17427-html","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/windows-7-installation-missing-drivers\/17427.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved windows 7 installation &#8211; missing drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><td>Good day<\/p>\n<p>One of our employees laptop just suddenly stopped working (he says). When switched it shows a message that indicates that there is no booting device and that there is no OS. I tried making a custom installation of Windows 7, but when i get to the part where I am to select the driver to be installed i get the message &#8220;No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK&#8221;. Kindly advise on what i am to do here. The laptop is a HP 655.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>Yes, it does sound like a failed hard drive. Installing drivers at this point would only be needed if say you were installing onto a PCIe SSD drive or other non-standard drive. If the drive is a SATA (or PATA) drive, then no drives are needed. If the installer does not find a conventional hard drive, then it looks for non-standard drives and since it is not finding them either, is asking you for the software that will allow it to find and use a non-standard drive that is does not see.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"gray\">You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":57},"question-category":[],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}