All right I put in the above listed hard drive and it shows in the device manager. When I try to format it or assign it a drive letter in Disk Management I get an error that say:
Furthermore, my roommate also has a Windows 7 x64 system and when we put it in his computer it works fine without having to format. It automatically ran through a little update process and worked on startup.
I appreciate the help in advance.
I put a couple different variants of the motherboad drivers on and uninstalled the hard drive a few times. Eventually it all came together.
Problem solved.
I’m having the same problem with my 1TB caviar black. i haven’t updated the motherboard yet but your saying that is what fixed it? I have an Asus Rampage Extreme II but i have to assume it’ll sync up upon an update. The Rampage Ext II comes Vista 64bit ready but not Windows 7 ready.
why did you have to install several updates?? was there a particular fix update?
thanks for any heads up here before i start “updating” willy nilly.
Oh and did you uninstall the drive through the device manager? i see mine there too just not in My computer as you said. So yours appeared on start up eventually?
thanks.
Did you have to d.l a driver from WD manually or can you fix this with a Windows update? (automatic).
I put the most recent drivers on directly from nVidia. That didn’t work so I put the most recent ones on directly from the motherboard manufacturer (XFX in my case).
I then uninstalled directly from the device manager and restarted my PC. When it started back up it ran a little autoinstall and prompted me to format. I accepted the format and it worked like a charm in a couple seconds.