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Aug 6, 2011 - hdds dont need a driver u only need a driver for the sata controller u need to find a preinstall driver for your o.s. Btw does the hdd show up in. Correct SATA Drivers for hard disk controller? Hi, my issues are two-fold. After asking the guys at the shop who put my computer together to partition the hard drive, they must've forgotten.
Ultimately my mission was to partition that one drive which the people who made my computer did so Windows 7 could reside in a smaller amount of space (in C drive), while the virtual environment would operate multiple OS and test spaces in the other partitions; hopefully leaving the base OS (in C drive) relatively free from accumulating a whole lot of extra files over time.
So, when you're unsatisfied with the way the people who built your computer set it up on just the one drive, here's what I just did:
(Disclaimer: I'm new to all of this and not sure if this is the best way to go around it, but it's how I eventually got around my problem)
1. Right-click on 'Computer' from the 'Start' pearl to click on 'Manage'.
2. Click 'Disk Management' (found under 'Storage'), then right-click on C drive to click on 'Shrink Volume...'
3. Shrink it to half it's size (default).
4. Right click on the Unallocated partition to format, choose 'New Simple Volume...'
5. Fly through the wizard then re-install Windows 7 choosing the custom option and putting the new Windows 7 install on the newly formatted drive.
6. Next I just removed/cleaned C drive, and created it again at only 50GB's (could have made it smaller but didn't), then re-installed Windows 7 again on new (smaller) C drive.
7. Okay, off to install VMware on the new (larger) partition now... Hope this helped someone else.
If not, please reply with anything/everything done wrong; I'm really open to criticism for the sake of getting much better at this.
Cheers : )
Sorry, I should have given you more information.
Yes, I did reinstall/reformat Win XP. I installed the drivers provided me by the PC maker (Dell).
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When I plug in the HD, the computer tells me a new USB element has been detected. I cannot however see it under My Computer. Using Device Manager, I used the New Hardware Wizard to find and install a driver (Initio Default Controller). I still cannot see the HD anywhere. I tried to find it in the Disk Management Section, but no luck.
On the Western Digital website, it states: 'Most WD drives do not include drivers because they use a standard driver built into the operating system. If your driver is built into your operating system or is already installed, and your OS continues to look for a driver, your drive has most likely failed or been damaged and needs to be replaced.'
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I'm pretty sure that the internal hard drive is not damaged, so I'm tending to believe that it is a driver issue.
Sorry to sound so obtuse, but with my last job of 7 years I was strictly on a Mac, so I'm not as PC savvy as I once was.
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Again, any help that you can offer would be greatly appreciated.