hard drive driver

jwm81us

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How do I provide a driver for new hard drive and where do I get it. Not sure what AHCI mode is or the difference betweem SATA and IDE. Thanks for all the input
 
For Windows - you wont need drivers - they will be inbuilt into windows. So unless you doing fancy software raid stuff - you don't need anything special.
You need check what kind of drives your motherboard supports.. if its younger than about 5 years.. it will be SATA..
And as for the rest.. if you are interested enough to ask.. you should be interested enough to Google it for yourself.

HTH
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jwm81us

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Are you trying to install Windows? You don't need a driver for the hard-drive, you need it for the chipset on the motherboard so the Windows setup can detect the devices attached to the motherboard. That AHCI thing you are talking about is change in the BIOS you can do so Windows detects the drive, set the disk mode from AHCI to ATA (it may be called Legacy in some BIOSes), then it should see the disk to install it.