Windows VIsta Installer Issue

[PCGal]

Hello Everyone, to start things off, I'm messing around with this for fun and it is not on my main machine. I have an old laptop that I thought would be fun to mess around with. Anyway, as I'm trying to install it I get this CD/DVD driver error. I do not know if there is a work around of a driver I can get. I have an HP G2 355. Thanks in advanced everyone.

[Master Disaster]

2 things, is the laptop UEFI and are you booting from DVD or USB?

[PCGal]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

2 things, is the laptop UEFI and are you booting from DVD or USB?

1) I'm unsure, but if I had to guess off of quick googling UEFI

 

2) I'm booting off of USB

[butler1233]

Go to the HP website and download the drivers for your hardware. https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-355-g2-notebook-pc/6732470

 

Chuck them on a USB or something and then you should be good. Load them in the setup wizard and then your CS or hard drive, whatever the issue it's having is, it should show up.

 

It's worth mentioning HP don't support Vista on that laptop though, and it is vista, so maybe you should just abandon ship

[ProjectBox153]

That's a laptop that's far too new for Windows Vista to be useful. I don't know why you'd want Vista on there. It doesn't have driver support, and you probably can't find them anyways. 

[PCGal]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

That's a laptop that's far too new for Windows Vista to be useful. I don't know why you'd want Vista on there. It doesn't have driver support, and you probably can't find them anyways. 

It was just a fun project.  I enjoy messing around in random OS's

[Master Disaster]

2 minutes ago, PCGal said:

1) I'm unsure, but if I had to guess off of quick googling UEFI

 

2) I'm booting off of USB

Yeah it's UEFI so you're going to have to enable CSM/Legacy Boot Mode to get Vista installed.

 

Take the USB out of a USB 3 port and put it in a USB 2 port instead

[PCGal]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Yeah it's UEFI so you're going to have to enable CSM/Legacy Boot Mode to get Vista installed.

 

Take the USB out of a USB 3 port and put it in a USB 2 port instead

Thanks. That got it working!!!

 

[Master Disaster]

7 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

That's a laptop that's far too new for Windows Vista to be useful. I don't know why you'd want Vista on there. It doesn't have driver support, and you probably can't find them anyways. 

Pretty much everything will work fine with 7 drivers, the only thing that won't is Video (due to Vista being WDDM 1.2 & 7 being WDDM 2.0) but I reckon Windows update should sort Video drivers out anyway.

 

6 minutes ago, PCGal said:

It was just a fun project.  I enjoy messing around in random OS's

For the love of everything holy make sure you're Vista install includes SP1 at least. Vista pre SP1 is not something you should not be running.

[PCGal]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Pretty much everything will work fine with 7 drivers, the only thing that won't is Video (due to Vista being WDDM 1.2 & 7 being WDDM 2.0) but I reckon Windows update should sort Video drivers out anyway.

 

For the love of everything holy make sure you're Vista install includes SP1 at least. Vista pre SP1 is not something you should be running.

Its Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit with SP 2 built in

[Master Disaster]

Just now, PCGal said:

Its Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit with SP 2 built in

Excellent

[ProjectBox153]

9 minutes ago, PCGal said:

It was just a fun project.  I enjoy messing around in random OS's

Why not use a VM? At least you’d have proper video support with Aero. 

[PCGal]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Why not use a VM? At least you’d have proper video support with Aero. 

I like using actual hardware over VMs

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, PCGal said:

I like using actual hardware over VMs

You don’t have an older computer?

[PCGal]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

You don’t have an older computer?

This is the only one I currently have working.