driver for hard drive???  


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    win7
       #1

    driver for hard drive???


    Hello everyone, I am presently using Win7 RC, although everything is working fine I still have this problem message appearing. The message states that my maindrive ( I use two drives) is missing the driver?

    It is a Western Digital WDC160 Sata 2, otherwise the only problem I have is that it does not recognize my HP scanner drivers. And HP stopped making drivers after XP.

    Thank you

    Guy
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    vista x64
       #2

    Try clicking on the drive and click update driver in the device manager, see if that helps other than that I can't think of anything esle at the moment.
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    ultimate 64 sp1
       #3

    hi berguy101, welcome to the forum,

    you may have to download the chipset driver for your motherboard.

    please fill out your system specs so we can advise further.
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    Windows 7 RC 7100 32bit/64bit
       #4

    berguy101 said:
    Hello everyone, I am presently using Win7 RC, although everything is working fine I still have this problem message appearing. The message states that my maindrive ( I use two drives) is missing the driver?

    It is a Western Digital WDC160 Sata 2, otherwise the only problem I have is that it does not recognize my HP scanner drivers. And HP stopped making drivers after XP.

    Thank you

    Guy
    Indeed you might need to download a driver, but definitely not for your hard drive itself, rather than for your SATA controller.

    SATA controllers can be set through BIOS to specific modes such as RAID , AHCI, IDE ...etc

    Your system is probably set to RAID mode, and you need to download the SATA/RAID drivers for your motherboard's SATA controller.
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