WD Harddrive install


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Old 03-20-07, 01:12 PM
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WD Harddrive install

I just installed a new 160 gig drive as a second drive.The drive shows up in windows ok but every time I restart the computer I get the hardware wizard in Windows XP telling me the it cannot install the drive. The drive is installed and is working fine. Thanks for any input!
 
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Old 03-20-07, 07:22 PM
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Is it EIDE or Serial ATA drive? Is it/did you... partitioned and formatted.
The drive must have at least one partition. After a partition is created and formatted, a drive letter is assigned to the partition in Windows and you can access the drive.
 
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Old 03-21-07, 06:41 AM
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It is a serial ata drive. The drive is formated and is a NTFS file system setup. It has a drive letter and works fine. It shows up in "my computer" and I can access it for reading and writing with no trouble. It's just that nagging setup window I get from the hardware manager each time I start windows. It says the driver "has not passed the windows logo test", so I stop installation and then the hardware wizard says the drive is not installed, but it is. The Western Digital web site was no help at all. Thanks
 
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Old 03-21-07, 07:39 PM
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cant you just let it install...continue anyway?

check for the cryptographics services running. if not try restarting the service and check if it works.
 
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Old 03-21-07, 07:59 PM
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Let it install the driver.
 
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Old 03-23-07, 04:50 AM
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now what

I have let the driver try to load and a screen comes up and says driver not installed your hardware is not loaded. I have checked the cryptographies services and all seems well. The drive is installed but Windows won't believe it. One person said to turn off the hardware manager but I would have to turn it back on if I wanted to install any hardware in the future. Maybe I will just have to live with the nag screen.
 
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Old 03-23-07, 06:11 PM
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Are there any errors listed in the device manager for this hardware? Also, if you go under device manager for that device and select "driver update" does it help?
 
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Old 03-24-07, 04:36 PM
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WD Harddrive install

No one has asked if your BIOS will handle a drive that big. Can you see the full capacity of the drive in both the BIOS and in Windows? Just for giggles I might consider splitting the drive in two. Secondarily, is the first drive SATA as well or is it IDE?
 
 

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