HELP! Hard drive device drivers gone!!

[WollaBolla]

Afternoon all,

I have messed up and have spent the last three hours trying to resolve this problem.

So firstly I wanted to upgrade my Desktop Hard drive to a 1TB hard drive. I purchased the Seagate Desktop ST1000DM003.

Towards the end of installing Windows 7 and near completion, an error appeared stating 'Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer’s hardware'. I read that this is an update of some kind but I couldnt find what it was. After a few attempts which ended up installing three separate Windows 7 on this hard drive, I decided in all my wisdom to start a fresh and format the hard drive......in doing so I wiped the drives device drivers and now the PC wont recognise it all without them drivers.

Can someone please help me on where I can down these drivers so I can place it on a USB stick so I can have then uploaded through the Windows 7 upload process?

And if any of you know how to overcome the first problem with installing a new hard drive into a old desktop, that would be amazing!

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers

Matt

 

[voyagerfan99]

That has nothing to do with an update. Scan the drive with Seatools, as I feel it's probably a defective drive.

You can use Seatools on Hirens Boot CD. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

Also you don't need drivers just to install Windows. You install the drivers after the fact.

 

[johnb35]

Are you using the original version of windows 7 without SP1 applied to it? What mode is the sata controller in inside the bios? It should be in AHCI mode, not raid or IDE/sata/compatibility.

 

[StrangleHold]

the PC wont recognise it all without them drivers.

Can someone please help me on where I can down these drivers so I can place it on a USB stick so I can have then uploaded through the Windows 7 upload process?

And if any of you know how to overcome the first problem with installing a new hard drive into a old desktop, that would be amazing!

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers

Matt

Does the bios see the drive? Windows 7 doesn't need extra drivers to install a IDE or SATA drive.