Five drives have lost their drivers to be programmed.

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John Ziesemer

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Recently, I purchased a copy of the OS system our anti-virus has been fighting for years, Windows 10 Pro (I find it hard to believe that the wonderful 250+ people at Micro$oft that gave us XP and 7 have been terminated by Satya Nadela). After 1.5 days of learning to hate it as much as the other 25% of the world that has it, my computer went into a continuous 'Disk Check' loop. So, I placed my copy of Parted Magic in the dvd rom and restarted the computer. Two SSDs were deleted in seconds, while two of the HDDs took a little over an hour. The fifth, a brand spanking new WD 1 terabyte drive never finished, it needed about 68 thousand minutes to erase (bad drive). I shut it down, and then removed the bad drive. When I went to reboot my copy of Win7 Pro, the message on the monitor was something like 'insert disc to install drivers', I'm pretty sure. Guess what, all four good drives (close to $400.00 worth), have no drivers to accept a download. My question is this, if I were to place each one at a time in my pluggable drive dock hooked up to another computer, would reformatting them as a new disc for drive D install the drivers I need to reboot, or am I just $%&# out of luck? (Parted Magic must have gone a little too far when I shut the computer down)
 
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Are you using a USB drive to boot your installation of Windows 7? Usually if you are using a USB 3.0 flash drive it will give you this error. It can easily be worked around by using a USB 2.0 drive and making it the new boot\installation media.
 
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No, no Flash drive, a DVD copy from Micro$oft.
 
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Your windows 10 went into checkdisk loop, because your 1TB WD drive died. Deleting everything and reformating wasn't really necessary. Just had to diagnose properly.
When windows 7 install process asks for storage drivers, then provide them to installation.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...es-Chipset-Based-Desktop-Boards?product=50244

BTW - have you ever installed windows 7 before?
 
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I've loaded Win 7 in quite a few desktops and laptops for many people since the Win 8 debacle, I've just never run into a problem where the boot process gets to disc 0, I click on it and then it wants to 'refresh' drivers for the SSDs to take a download. When your computer goes into a continuous disc check loop every time you power it up, what choice do you have?, except to start from scratch?
 
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Here's exactly what I did. First, I disabled the newest drive by removing the sata and power cables. Same thing, disc check loop. Then, I removed the Win 10 and it's separate storage drive from the list. Same thing, disc check loop. As far as the Intel site is concerned you directed me to, I already have the cd that came with the mobo back in 2011. The only way to install drivers for the mobo is AFTER your C drive is fully loaded with an OS, not the other way around. Hence, none of my four good drives have the drivers needed to accept programming. That's why I've asked if formatting them in an external unit to be a 'new' drive for storage, would that replace the missing drivers in the four other drives?
 
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Reboot from windows installation media and run checkdisk manually.


Not true. Windows 7 install asks for drivers to load. You just have them prepared before that on some type of media (hdd, cd, usb). Only problem is, when you need usb drivers. You can't load those from usb media.
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The 2.0 USB ports work fine. Otherwise, the mouse and keyboard (both of which are USB because there aren't the other older style ports for mouse and keyboard) wouldn't work. I'm simply asking IF an external drive dock figured in disc management as a D drive would reinstall the drivers lost when the Parted Magic ISO got a little overly rambunctious and took the drivers out of the drives..
 
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The Parted Magic ISO came directly from their site for a whole $4.95 download shortly after SSDs became feasible to purchase. I simply put it on a DVD and have used it for deleting SSDs as well as HDDs hundreds of times, it works on either and is faster than D-BAN (which cannot be used on an SSD, I've heard it'll wear SSDs out). I haven't tossed the drives yet because of the cost, and I'd really like to use them again. Because Win 7 is great at picking up drivers for nearly anything and everything, I'm wondering if it'll pick up the necessary drivers to make the drives usable again.
 
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I've assembled half a dozen machines that are here in the house, but I don't know if what was done to the drives would 'leech' back through the system of rather high dollar six core machines.
 
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It really doesn't matter now, the damage has already been done. However, I didn't know that. I'm wondering if reformatting them to 'new volume' would replace the needed drivers because 7 is so good at picking up drivers.
 
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You provide drivers during windows installation. They will not appear out of thin air by themselves.

How is reformating going to help you?

Use download link I provided.
Get zip file with storage drivers, choose appropriate version for 32bit or 64bit windows,
extract the drivers and copy them onto usb flash drive.
During windows installation, provide path to drivers and proceed with installation.

You obviously haven't done any OS installation, if this is such a rocket science for you. :)
 
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Look, I'm not a guru, I'm a very level headed man who pulled himself up out of the gutter after being trashed in Nam. If you want to toss insults, you're not abiding by the rules set by Toms hardware. I see I've made a terrible mistake thinking I could find an answer by coming here for the second time. I'll never return. You sir, are lower than WHALE $#!-
 
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