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Originally Posted by RWebb View Post
Win 7 has the drivers built in to the OS (or so sez WD (Western Digital, the HDD manf.) on it's FAQ.

"you mentioned that the controller and partition numbers are wrong"
- I did?? I don't know that they are wrong. Did something I posted mean they were wrong?

Memory tests fine.

WD tech support Emailed me and told me to run a diagnostic pgm - the catch 22 is you appernetly have to get Windows booted to run the diagnostic pgm...
I took this as the expected partition was 1 and was now showing 2:

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Where do you want to install Windows: used to show 1 partition; now shows 2: Disk 0 Partition 1 : System Reserved 100 MB total; & Disk 0 Partition 2 931 GB – busy for 17 minutes
Also it's not the drivers for the hard drive, it's the drivers for the controller. That driver would be provided by the mainboard vendor or the chipset manufacturer. For instance, Nvidia in some caes, or LSI logic.

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And yes, do as Redbeard mentioned and hook that drive up to a host machine and get your data off.
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