Trying windows 7 install

[bleedingedge]

Finally got a good iso image but now am in need of a "driver" which will allow 7 to recognize sata drive.
Is there a source for such a driver?
Thanks

[bleedingedge]

By the way, this is a SUSE machine with no previous Microsoft product installed.
I am assuming that the "driver" could be put on a usb stick and found in browse.

[richa004]

When I installed Windows 7 it recognised my SATA hard drive fine. Perhaps it can't recognise the ext3 or ReiserFS file system the disc uses. Download and burn yet another .ISO, this time for Parted Magic and use it as a live cd and follow the instructions to format your drive, or part of it, as FAT32 which Windows can recognise and then deal with.

[fauxpas]

Possibly start the install of XP just to delete all partitions and create an ntfs one...

Then throw 7 on...

[nimaim]

I had no problems with Windows 7 not recognizing the SATA drive. It detects it just fine. Have Windows delete the partition and just pick the free unallocated space to install it on (setup will automatically format the drive and set up C:\). Anything Windows XP SP2 and above (Vista, 7) include built in SATA drivers. Windows 7 even recognized everything out of the box. The only thing I had to manually download and install was the HP Wireless Assistant utility for Bluetooth (I used the latest one from here), which automatically recognized the Bluetooth card and installed the drivers for me.

[bleedingedge]

Thanks,
I got it.

[Badwolf]

all i did was install 7 and it didn't need any drivers

[helios]

all i did was install 7 and it didn't need any drivers

Really ?? which build of the Win 7 you're using ? I use build 7032 and saw many yellow bang mark in device manager, how about yours ?

[coreymcl]

The only driver my Windows 7 (7000) did not find was the ethernet port. I just installed the Vista driver and was good to go.