This package provides the driver for Intel C600 SCU Storage Controller and is supported on Precision T series running the following Windows Operating system Windows: Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (32/64-bit). With the exception of mobile device application software specifically designed by Dell to be run on non-Dell hardware.
How To Install Mass Storage Controller Driver For Dell 3360 Windows 7
Hi,I done another fresh install of windows 10 yesterday however it seems to install alot of drivers itself.
I haven't started installing my drivers yet as I am unsure of what ones I need to install.
The problem I am having is that Dell won't support my laptop for Win10 they only have drivers for upto windows 8 and the last time I tried windows 10 some driver packages I installed had errors.
I have tried to install windows 10 a few times now as microsoft are really pushing it on everyone but I have always ended upreinstalling windows 7 due to the amount of issues I am having with Windows 10 probably due to driver support from dell.
How can I find out which drivers are missing and what ones I really need installed?
My Dell Vostro 3500 (anno 2010) laptop lost it's hard drive which I easily replaced. Problem: The laptop was not shipped with a Windows installation media, so the recovery options was located on the faulty hard drive.
Dell Denmark asks almost $100 to send a new installation media. Luckily I found a clean Windows 7 OEM iso file online, which should be working with my license key.
I don't get that far.
The Windows installation says No drives were found. Click load driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation.
I already tried:
- Changing hard drive setting to and from AHCI to Legacy IDE in BIOS.
- Providing the installation with the Intel Rapid Storage driver provided by Dell as well as the chipset drivers. No other drivers seem relevant to the hard drive.
Nothing seems to help. Any advice?
2 Answers
Apparantly Windows Setup does not list hard drives partitioned in a away it does not understand. I think my hard drive had been formatted for a Unix system.
Solution is really simple. From the Windows Setup access the repair utilities and use command prompt to access diskpart as follows:
Now use that info to select your disk
And the next command will clear the disk, so if you are not going to use all of the hard drive please be aware not to lose any data now!
Voila. Hit the close button and start the setup process again, the disk will be there.
I had a bonus problem, Windows could not find or create a system partition...
Solution to that problem was install in IDE-mode and/or set hard drive to 1st boot priority. This seems to be a USB-install bug.
Dell laptops from this era seem yo ship with three options in their BIOS:
- Regular AHCI mode.
- Ancient backward compatability mode
- Fake RAID mode.
By default Dell sets these to RAID.
Windows 7 ships with a lot of drivers and it will install just fine if you set the disk to AHCI mode. If you set it to RAID mode then you will need to load drivers. Without these drivers winows will not see any of the harddisks and you have no place to install to.
Vista Mass Storage Controller Driver
That mean you have to solutions:
- Set the disk to normal AHCI mode. It will work perfectly.
- Set disk access to RAID mode and load the correct drives on a pen drive. During setup load the drivers when asked to do so (F^).