drivers for windows 7

[inpinse]

I got windows 7 from my school and i want to install it on my vaio laptop VGN-FW21E. Now it asks for the driver from the cd/dvd-rom. I looked on the sony site but can't find it. Can sombody help me?


Ik heb via mijn school windows 7 gekregen en wil mijn vaio VGN-FW21E updaten naar windows 7. Nu heb ik de DVD erin gedaan en vraagt hij om de driver van de cd/dvd-rom. Deze kan ik echter nergens vinden op de website van Sony. Heeft iemand enig idee hoe ik eraan kan komen?

Met vriendelijke groet,
InD88

[Blencogo]

Hi ind88 and welcome.

You should have made your own DVD Recovery Discs by going to Start -> All Programs -> Vaio Recovery Centre.

These Recovery Discs would hold the full Vista recovery software including drivers.

There are no Windows 7 Drivers or Utilities available yet but the Vista ones will be compatible with Windows 7.

You can download them from here:

http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/preinstalled/index.aspx?l=en_GB&m=VGN-FW21E

[rich912]

Hi ind88,

The CD/DVD ROM driver is a driver provided with the Windows operating system. The inf file will be located at C:\Windows\inf\cdrom.inf

If you are unable to point the wizard in this direction then try the following:

Click Start > Control Panel > Device Manager.

Expand CD/DVD ROM Drives – double click the drive and on the Driver tab click 'Update Driver'

Select ‘Browse my Computer....’

Next ‘Let me Pick from a List...’

Click ‘Have Disk’ and browse to C:\Windows\inf\cdrom.inf

Hopefully this will install the correct drivers...

If under CD/DVD ROM drives nothing is listed then look for unidentified devices and follow the same procedure.

[Blencogo]

Thanks Rich - I must learn to read the question properly!!!

:smileyblush:

[inpinse]

okay thank you. I'll try to use that as the driver.

The problem is that I boot the system with running the setup from the beginning (to upgrade) and i can't set-up the driver later for the cd/dvd-rom.

[inpinse]

2 bad it didn't work.. it was in the list but it said it wasn't the good driver.

[rich912]

2 bad  it didn't work.. it was in the list but it said it wasn't the good driver.

Try uninstalling the device in Device manager (Right click the CD/DVD ROM Drive and select uninstall). Then reboot.

If that doesn’t resolve the problem then it may indicate that there is a problem with the cdrom.inf that came with your copy of Windows 7 – but I doubt that. You could overwrite the said file with the one that was originally installed under Vista, but as I have no experience of Windows 7 I have no idea whether this will work...

Thanks Rich - I must learn to read the question properly!!!

I'm glad that I'm not alone on this

[inpinse]

It didn't work It wasn't good or something. Is there some other options?

[varsadho]

hey dude i have the sony vaio pcg-4v1m it had windows 7 basic and i clean install win 7 ultimate 32 bit. now i can't use my fn keys and scroll on my touche pad plz help me i search like hell on google and on this site but cant find anny thing