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I can't fix your problem but (for what it's worth) can offer a bit of an explanation about what you're seeing in Devices and Printers.
Device Manager, displays hardware device information at the "piece by piece" hardware component level. To help the user better understand their hardware at a logical level, Microsoft introduced the concept of "containers" in Windows 7.
- A container is a piece of hardware the user can understand. Each device you see in Devices and Printers is a container.
- Each container is represented by a unique "container ID.
- A container consists of one or more hardware devices. (Note: If you look at Device properties in Device Manager->Details tab, you'll find the container ID the device belongs to)
- Each hardware device belonging to a container is assigned the same container ID
The task of creating a Container ID and associating which hardware belong in which container is performed by a combination of BIOS, the Plug and Play Manager and information vendors (may) include in the hardware device firmware. What you see in Devices and Printers is the logical presentation of each container along with its icon and meta data (like mfr, model #'s, etc)
btw... When you see an "Unspecified" device listed under Devices and Printers it only means the something didn't implement the concept of container IDs correctly. The unspecified device is a piece of hardware not associated with a container. An Unspecified device does NOT mean a device problem.
If you right click a container icon->Properties->Hardware tab you see the list of hardware devices that are part of the container. I believe that if you have a yellow bang icon on a container icon, it means there's an issue with one of the hardware devices that are part of the container
Anyway, hope this info may help sometime future :)
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p.s. So i don't think the new drive should make any difference to Container construction and meta data inclusion. Though perhaps a BIOS? or Windows update? or driver update? might do it i would think.. (of course, Windows still always has its mysteries....
Last edited by ComputerGeek; 26 Mar 2014 at 17:26.