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Glad you got it sorted.

That was kinda my train of thought too......I thought it was useful on telephotos (well, longer than 50mm)

That sounds logical although I'd try plugging into another machine first. Do you have another hdd you can try?

Bored now .... Op, let us know how you go

Assuming is one thing, knowing its been installed on the machine before should tell you something!

Do you think the nikon misses the VR of the other lenses or doesn't it need it?

Lmao.....you mean hardware which is designed to run with windows 7? The op has has windows 8 on the machine before so I feel it a fair assumption to make that the hardware is relatively modern.....I.e newer than 3-4 years or so. Heck, I've put windows 7 on old p4 laptops and never ever needed...

I may just try my current kit lens at 24mm indoors and see how i get on. I could compliment the 24-70 with a 10-24 to cover the range.

I've heard good things about the 16-85, but definately want the low light performance the 2.8 should bring. The reason I want a zoom and not primes is I will use it to take shots of fast moving objects (my son lol) and hard to compose any kind of shot with a fixed focal length.

I agree with you. I had considered the 24-70 now as an investment until I can go full frame but worry it would be too narrow on a crop. The 17-55 would be lovely if I can find a good second hand example, can't justify new as it could be redundant next year.

I would monitor usages while you work to see if its overworked first. You would obviously see an improvement but its whether its a worthwhile improvement

To save messing the ops thread up, I disagree with you but will leave it at that. I've never needed to use drivers with a windows 7 build to enable a disk to be seen, ever. If windows can see the drive, it has sufficient drivers to use the storage devices. It's likely it's seeing a drive it...

You wouldn't have done bios damage using PM but I've had it do weird things to hdd's before. Let us know what a working windows partition sees it as and post back. You wouldn't need a new drive either, should be fine.

The fact windows sees the drive should suggest it doesn't need further drivers as it obviously has enough to see it. It seems like it just can't do anything with it. What options did you take with PM? I would try it in another machine and see what state the drive is in. Hindsight is always...

On the install, you get the option to work with the disk to create and modify partitions etc. will it let you do this? Do you have another machine to put it into so you can try ore formatting it before install? I hate partition magic with a vengeance as it can do some pretty sh&@ty things to a...