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bernagamze
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vmware workstation 17 no device drivers were found

I am getting an error like this:

No device drivers were found. A media driver your computer needs is missing. 

how can i solve this problem? 

thanks your advice

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RDPetruska
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Have you installed the VMware Tools?  That should contain all device drivers for the VM.

Technogeezer
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The error message is telling me that Windows doesn't have a built-in device driver for some disk hardware. 

What Windows operating system are you looking to install?

How do you have your VM's virtual hard drive bus configured? Is it SCSI, IDE, SATA or NVMe?

 

- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
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bernagamze
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I tried to install win10, win11 and server 2022 but none of them worked. I also tried sata, scsi separetely. 

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bernagamze
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I do not know actually. Won't I install vmware tools after installing virtual machine?

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bernagamze
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I am really grateful to you. thanks

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a_p_
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The error message is often caused by a corrupt/incomplete installation image.

Although it seems unlikely that the images for all operating systems that you try to install are corrupt, I still recommend that you check their integrity, by e.g. comparing their checksum with those provided by Microsoft.

André