Windows 10: Copying hard disk driver from Windows 10 to Windows 7?

My laptop will boot both Windows 10 and Windows 7 from a Crucial SSD.

Can I use the Windows 10 hard disk drivers with Windows 7? If so how would I set about installing them?

I have a USB stick with Windows 10 build 10049.

At the moment Windows 7 is using the hard disk driver for the original hard disk in the laptop. This is leading to me being told that I don't have a genuine copy of Windows. None of the regular fixes will solve this problem.

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When copying files from external hard disk to notebook getting error "the name/path of files is too long and should be reduce"

Hi Eleftheria,

Provide us with the below details for better clarity on the issue.

1. Does this issue occur when you are copying files from the internal hard disk?

2. What is the file format of the file?

I suggest you to compress the file using the third party application which is available in the Windows store and then try copying the files to the system and check if it helps.

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Hope this helps in copying the files from hard disk. Please update us regarding this issue we will be glad to assist you further.

 

When copying files from external hard disk to notebook getting error "the name/path of files is too long and should be reduce"

Original Title: Problems in files copying

When copying files from external hard disk to my notebook, I recently receive the message that the name/path of files is too long and should be reduce. Is there a particular setting of Windows that can be amended to solve this issue.

Re-naming is not always an easy solution in particular when copying involves large folders with sub-folders and numerous files where the identification of the specific "problematic" file is a time consuming issue.

I work on Windows 10.

Many thanks,

Eleftheria

 

Unless you have some kind of special controller card in your PC, the hard disk drivers that come with Win7 are all you need.

If you're getting some kind of "non-genuine" message, this has NOTHING to do with the hard disk driver. If that driver was faulty or incompatible with your drive, your PC might boot, but it certainly would not get to a working Windows desktop.

Getting "non-genuine" error messages is an entirely different problem.

To get help about that, you need to post to Windows 7 Help Forums in the Activation section.

 

The only time I had to use HDD drivers was with the original/first version of Windows XP, had to press F6 when prompted during the install to add SATA HDD drivers. Needed to have them on a floppy disk to do it. With WinXP SP1 and later haven't had to do that as SATA support was built in.

 

There is a thread on answers.microsoft.com which suggest that it could be a driver issue:

Windows 7 Activation Update fail Error Code 0xC8000247 - Microsoft Community

 

Did you try Andres's suggestion? Post 2 is suggesting to installing the Intel rapid Storage Drivers. Did you check in Device Manager to see if all drivers are installed correctly?

 

Windows 7 thinks it has the correct drivers for disk and sata, but they are not the same as W10 is using. There is something odd about this SSD. When I tried it in my desktop I got plenty of BSODs.

 

You can check the website of the SSD manufacturer to see if there's firmware update for your drive.

 

All the drivers for all the HDDs and SSD are from 2006 so Win7 drivers should be fine.

 

Thank you for the suggestion. There was indeed some new firmware which came out about a month ago. I have installed it, but it has not resolved my problem!

 

Using a different Intel driver has solved the problem. It is just a pity that even the Intel Driver Update utility that I found does not lead you the 'Rapid Storage Technology' driver that I am now using.

 

Really, WOW! Thanks for the update. Didn't know about this problem.