Hello. I've built a system or two, but never with an external CD/DVD for the install. I have a Zbox barebones plus memory. I have tried to install windows to both a 64GB SSD and a 320 HDD. Both had prior Win 7 installs. Neither started in the Zbox so I wiped them to an unformatted partition and tried again. This worked a bit better...
Despite the fact that windows starts to install from the external DVD drive, it balks a little way in saying it cant find a required CD/DVD driver. Browse options don't show the CD/DVD drive even though Windows is reading from it!. (It's a targus, no drivers came with it - in a rear of the box slot direct to mobo.)
I changed the bios and put both Win7 and the Zotac driver set on a USB drive and ran that - with no result at all (flashing cursor on black screen).
Any new approaches would be appreciated.