What driver would it need?

Well... Yesterday I got my new hard drive in to mirror to, but stupid me didn't look to make sure I had a sata cable and I didn't order one with the drive, so I had to wait till today when I went to work to get one.

But I got the cable and used Acronis True Image Home 11 to "clone" my current hd to the new one. Glad I chose manual clone rather than automatic or else it would have wiped my current drive when it copied everything to the new... It also never really gave a scenario as making the new hd a backup drive, it only talked about keeping everything on the old drive and using it as the backup. Doesn't really matter, I'm assuming that all it did was mirror the drives exactly.

Anyway, of course with my curiosity I wasn't about to just take the new drive out when it was finished and stick it on the shelf, I HAD to test it out and make sure it would boot, at least. But first I made sure that my current drive booted normally. So, once I got to booting to the new backup drive to make sure that it worked correctly, everything went fine.

However, I noticed that when it first booted up to the new drive, it went through an adding new hardware routine. It never actually came up with a wizard or anything, it just gave a notification in the notification area that it was installing device drivers and then immediately went to device is installed and ready to use, then it came up with a dialog box that said that the computer must be rebooted to use the new hardware. I found this odd, since I haven't added anything. When I booted from the new drive, everything was exactly the same as before except for the fact that the hd was different. The current drive was not hooked up at the time. I didn't get to see what it was installing drivers for, or thought it was installing drivers for, before it switched to the device installed and ready to use notification and the reboot required box came up. Any ideas on what it was doing? Obviously it's a non-critical question but my curiosity wont let me forget about it.

Thanks

 

Probably sata/raid drivers, you didn't mention if the original drive was also sata or ide.

 

Yes it was. Sorry. I tried to get an identical drive(not that it needed to be, but just because I like this one) but they were out of stock when I was ordering so I just got the closest that I could. They are both Seagate 320 gig sata drives. The drivers(which I'm assuming are just generic sata drivers?) for the new one were installed when I slaved(I assume that is the right term) it in so that I could use Acronis to mirror to it. Maybe it installed them again.. or used a different drive since it became the disk that I booted from. I dunno... But yes both drives are sata.

And of course, the day after I recieve the new drive, they get my old one back in stock. <_< oh well, I guess it doesn't really matter. I wonder if Vista will make me re-activate if I ever need to switch over.