Hardr drive driver

odevans

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So my installation has gone **** up and I get the launch repair thing on start-up, from there I get asked for the driver for my hard drive in order to load my OS. Problem is that I have no idea what the driver is called, could anyone here help me please?

My hard drive is a Western Digital Caviare Black 500Gb, OS is windows 7.

Help would as always be hugely appreciated,

Thanks (I hope),

Danny
 
So is this a fresh Windows 7 installation that's gone wrong? or is a Windows installation that was working, but now no longer works?

Is your hard drive connected using IDE or SATA? Windows is likely looking for drivers for the disk controller.

Easiest way is to determine the brand/model number of your motherboard,and download the drivers from the manufacturers website.

Also did you enable AHCI mode in your BIOS? if it was disabled and you enabled it, you need to set it to disabled.
 
It is an old installation that has suddenly gone fut. It is connected via SATA. So you think that I should just insert the gigabyte cd?

Thanks for taking an interest BlueMhz
 
It is a GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58.

The message is: "Use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting Windows.
Select an operating system to repair.

If your operating system isn't listed, click Load Drivers and then install drivers for your hard disk."

Am I right in going to cd\bootdrv\gsata\64bit\xraid_f? It is the only SATA based file that I can find that does not have amd before it. When I click it displays 8 selections which are all the same, "GIGABYTE GBB36X Controller", after clicking one of those I do not get any operating system in the provided box... So I guess not.

Thanks again and sorry for the bad description.
 
I have had a little look into it also and yes it is the Intel driver that I need. My new problem is that the Intel driver from the website is an exe file, so I cannot load the driver. When I try it simply says "The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present". Any ideas how I could get the .sys file?
 
The exe is a self extracting archive, so on another machine, download and run, and then burn the extracted files (should be some .sys and .inf files) to a CD (or possibly copy to a usb drive).
 
Yes but as it happens the extracted file was also an exe for the intel driver. After all of this, it turned out that the NTFS file system had crashed - It is now a "RAW" format. No idea how the hell this has happened. Ever heard of this?

Overclockers have said that they can replace the hard drive thank god, but would like to recover as much as possible before hand.
 
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