>>1486478That sounds more difficult to me. You probably spent just as much time finding that driver CD and posting than doing one of the things I suggested. Also how do you know it's the driver driver pack for your hardware? I mean if you want to piss away your money buying free software from some grifters go for it.
Also forgot to mention in my last post that there is a way to install Windows in a different mode so that the bios handles peripherals, but I don't know much about that. AHCP vs some other mode or something.
If you can install win7 on the computer, you should be able to live boot with a USB. Could even go the Live CD route too if you have access to a CD burner. Linux will be able to detect your peripherals without much hassle. Then from there you transfer the files to the HD.
There is really no guarantee that the CD will actually work if windows can't already detect your hardware it probably means it needs specific drivers from the manufacturers.
