:) ,  many thanx for the swift advice .  pc now recognises the drive , and after some playing around all was looking great ,then the 'shandies kicked in' ...  ehe... i wiped of the op'sys..  ''oops''. is fine though as now after the reboot on to the drive i wanted etc . cavier blue is rolling and i got some room to play with. tbh, i hope i wasnt 'flapping' unessesarily.. but as i said ''many thanx'' ,sorry i didnt reply lastnight,was late and was still updating again.. that said  '' i am sorted here now , wish i wasnt such a noob ''. 'free advice'...... never get stuck into stuff whilst drinking   -.-  , its not clever. guess thats the questions all answered :P , will be making proper backups this time around. thumbs up jackshack.   -ID-
hi all'  o/ so i hadnt a backup on my studio xps 435 and the drive failed taking all.. ''np i thought ,ill upgrade to w7 from what was vista..''.. now the problem i had was computer didnt recognise the caviar blue(western dig) that was left. ended up installing onto a raptor i had spare ,but had to switch from sata/ATA  to RAID which aint great,and has only 74g and not 500g like the blue. i wont mention the problems i had before i realised that dell has own drivers for lots of stuff,that aside , it running w7 64bit fine, exept i cant seem to get a driver to support the hard drive i want to get working. 'the western dig' cav' blue'.. now ill admit im novice etc, but really want that to use that drive etc and to be as was in ATA and not RAID.. anything else ive lost isnt a prob, performance is so can/could anyone please help sort me out here,? i bought a 'retail version ' of w7 , so i can happy re-install etc, once i get the drivers to a disc . the trouble being that the system doesnt recognise the hard-drive at all .having at least being able to trawl the net for answers has helped,but i still cant get the 'driver' i need... or is it a lost cause.. because i dont has the 'vista i had either..i'll take that if nowt else seeing as i paid for it, -.-    maybe dell can ship a disc or download me the vista i had..? pardon me if im sounding crabby but im a little frustrated at the moment. i have no backup disc with purchase,and all was lost with the drive.. drive was being awkward early on in its life before i ever thought to backup and wouldnt let me so now im left with nothing.. guessing im lucky to be able to go online to ask. please, any help would be very much appreciated. please tell me theres a driver thats 64bit w7 compatable... raid on an old drive isnt the answer for me.   ty in advance anyone   :)   -ID-
upraded to w7 from the vista that was lost when hard drive failed