so i noticed earlier that my HDD isnt recognised...

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is a WD10EZEX 1tb drive. I tried to go into device manager and manually update the driver but it doesnt find anything..

 

heres a pic of what happens .. as you can see its not picking up a few other drivers either.

 

I updated the chipset just now and before i had updated it, the list of unrecognised devices was much larger so it seems to have fixed a fair number of things, but not the HDD.

 

I registered to the WD site so i could register the WD drive and request support as i found a thread mentioning that some motherboards dont recognise the drive ( http://www.eightforums.com/drivers-hardware/28551-hdd-drivers-needed-oem-hdd-wd10ezex.html ) .. in that thread it mentioned to get a utility called WDspeed which is only available on request.. havnt found it anywhere on google search. I changed the jumper settings to 5/6 and swapped the 6gb cable for 3gb but im stuck waiting now for them to get back with a link to the utility..

 

has anyone else had this problem with WD drives?

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ive located one of the drivers (marvell 91xx.. etc)

 

am going through ASUS' website drivers for my mobo so hopefully will get rid of a few more things on the list and theres a section for SATA device drivers so hopefully thatll sort the hard drive out

 

EDIT: ive downloaded all the drivers for the things that had caution signs on em and have tried various configs with the HDD but nothing has worked so i guess i just gotta wait till they get back to me about it..

 

this is what it looks like in the IRSTe software -

 

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after a few hours i figured it out.. the options were in computer management window -