I had same problems on my G72GX. Very glad that I found this thread!
🙂 I currently swapped stock Seagate Momentus 5400 500GB
on WD Blue 5000BPVT 500GB. WD is working correct, I checked it few times in HDDSentinel. I installed all drivers from Asus recovery disk, all was ok, but than I noticed that
Windows 7 Troubleshooting stopped working also Windows 7 Updates was not starting. I tried re installing Windows 7 again, but these
issues did not resolved. Also I founded that some driver's not installing correctly if you launch IMSM installation first ("missing of digital signature"
errors occured). Now I made all instruction above, except installing IMSM. And installed all drivers,
all ok but my WD is showing in device manager as removable device, also it crashed to BSOD few times with
"Page fault in nonresolved area". By the way what IMSM driver does, I guess it used for indexing files on HDD and for it correct work?
Before I even tried to install IMSM from support.asus.com, but same result. Seemed that Asus did not updated it.
So finally, is it recommended to use laptop without IMSM? I am excepting stable work from laptop. And is it possible to hide WD from removable devices
, I know that it's possible to hide only icon, but I want that WD would not showhn as removable HDD. Thanks for your reply!
P.S.
Maybe somewhere exist stable version of IMSM for Asus G72GX 64-bit?