Hard Drive

[Guest]

Installed a 40G WD hard drive that is recognized by bios and displayed in Windows. Upon restart new hardware manager identifies the the installed hard drive and new hardware and requests drivers for same. Device Manager lists the drive and the drive is operational. How can I prevent the new hardware wizard from recognizing the drive as new hardware?

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Do you mean everytime you reboot Windows says it has found new hardware
and installs the Hard Drive? For the drivers, Windows should have it
built in, if not, put in the CD that came with your harddrive.

One other question, is this harddrive internal or external?

Nathan McNulty

 

[Guest]

Yes. Hard drive came with no drivers from WD and is an internal drive. I used the Data Lifeguard utility to install the drive.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Are you running this in RAID? Have you tried playing with the drive in
Disk Management? Click Start-Run-Type compmgmt.msc and click OK. Now
click disk management and see what options you have with the new drive.
See if you can assing a drive letter to it and make it permantent or
something. Just a shot in the dark. It is difficult without being there

Nathan McNulty

 

[Guest]

I have tried everythng. This is not a RAID configuration and I have been a constant visitor to disk management, changing the drive letters etc. Any additional sugggestions?