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4TB WD4003FZEX: Windows 7 Fails to find/load driver
This is my 2nd attempt to install a brand new WD4003FZEX in my Windows 7 x64 machine. I assumed the first one was bad, so I exchanged it for another. I am NOT new to PCs, in fact I am ashamed to say I'm a tech with 15+ years experience and this one has me stumped. I have installed countless drives, and this one should be dead easy!
Windows simply says it failed to find the driver. The BIOS does see and correctly identify the drive. The motherboard is a modern Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H with UEFI, so no problem there.
I would be very grateful to anyone that can help me solve this.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU: Intel Core i7-2700K
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H
Memory: 32GBCorsair Vengeance (4x8GB) CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10
Graphics Card: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti
Hard Drives:
Boot: 256GB SSD: Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW
Secondary Drives: WD 2TB & WD 640GB