He selected it. The loading bar flickered. The hard drive whirred—actually whirred, a sound he hadn't heard from an SSD in years—as if waking from a long coma.
“The problem,” he muttered to the humming server rack, “is that Windows 7 doesn’t know how to talk to modern SATA controllers.”
He pulled a dusty USB stick from his pocket—his "Emergency Fossil Kit." On it were the files: Windows 7 SATA Drivers for Hard Drive.
The blue screen refreshed. A partition appeared. Disk 0 Unallocated Space: 1863.0 GB.