hard disk driver not found

[Gordon]

Try WD's site, see if you can get the driver off there,
put it to a floppy.
Maybe will work.
>-----Original Message-----
>hi,
>
>i recently added a 3rd hard disk to my system. actually,
it's an old
>disk i took from another machine: a western digital
30gig ide drive.
>the disk is detected ok, hard disk icon is shown but
then winxp
>suddenly asks for a driver for the new device. and i
dont have any,
>and i dont think it should require one. the installation
doesnt find a
>driver and so a yellow mark is shown next to the icon.
>it doesnt mean the disk doesnt work. i successfully
imported my old
>partition using disk manager and the drive letter is
shown. only
>problem is that each time i reboot the computer or
update the computer
>manager info, winxp asks for the driver. why is that?
>(a curious thing: when i select one of my already
installed disks --
>they're also western digital ide, though different
sizes -- and click
>on update driver, winxp doesnt find any driver for them
either.)
>
>any ideas?
>.
>

[TheGuy]

> Try WD's site, see if you can get the driver off there,

i'm sorry, but western digital's website doesn't have a driver for
ide. in fact, all drivers listed at http://support.wdc.com/download/
mention "It is not necessary to download the device drivers for
Windows ME, 2000 & XP."
and, as i said, the already installed hard disks do NOT have a proper
driver for them. i guess there's two possible problems with my system:
either winxp doesnt need a driver at all, and yet, it asks for it. or
either it does need a generic driver, provided in the initial winxp
installation, and that's been deleted somehow.
any other suggestions?

[TheGuy]

I later noticed that any new hardware fails to install -- or driver
software for that matter, such as Acrobat. I reinstalled WinXP, now
all works, but there should've been a less radical solution.