Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tyan S5397 OS Install from USB CDROM

I never expected this one...

My SATA CDROM died (SATA connector broke off!), so when it was time to do a fresh install of W7 I decided to use an external DVDROM on USB...

Easy to make it boot - but when it gets to the point of selecting the disk to install on, there isn't one!
I tried various ways to configure the SATA/PATA drives in the BIOS, but nothing worked. And adding the drivers from floppy wasn't any more successful.

Thinking back to how the system was configured last time I installed an  OS, I realized that I used the Internal SATA CDROM - and sure enough, once I installed that, everything seems to work fine...