360 Controller on PC?

Not sure if this should be in the 360 forum or PC forum, but i'll try here first. Anyways, I was just wondering if you can hook up a 360 controller to your pc and use it as a gamepad, or if you have to buy one of those special PC/360 controllers?

I tried hooking mine up to a USB on my PC, and it didn't work. But that USB doesn't work half the time and I don't want to pull it out to get access to the other ones until I know if it will work or not, because that usually ends with a couple things being unplugged and me spending 15 minutes trying to find out what cables they are and then trying to plug 'em back in.

Not sure if this should be in the 360 forum or PC forum, but i'll try here first. Anyways, I was just wondering if you can hook up a 360 controller to your pc and use it as a gamepad, or if you have to buy one of those special PC/360 controllers?

I tried hooking mine up to a USB on my PC, and it didn't work. But that USB doesn't work half the time and I don't want to pull it out to get access to the other ones until I know if it will work or not, because that usually ends with a couple things being unplugged and me spending 15 minutes trying to find out what cables they are and then trying to plug 'em back in.

Wolfmother0791

Yeah, it's wired so I don't need the adaptor.

But as for drivers, is this the one?

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0E989B12-576B-42F2-B7C1-2A17CE25188B&displaylang=en