• New Hard drive setup
    4 replies, posted
So i got a new Hard drive, formatted it, and installed windows 7 on it. however when i try to boot directly from it in bios it fails to work. I boot from my old hard drive and select the new copy of windows and it loads fine. so my question is, how do i set my new hard drive as the primary partition, active, and the system hard drive so that that copy of windows can boot from it and i can erase my old hard drive? [editline]7th June 2011[/editline] the status for the drives under computer management is as follows C: (0ld) system, active, primary partition K:(new) boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition
have you formatted your old drive?
Yeah you didn't install the bootloader on the new drive. I [I]think[/I] that windows dvd is able to do a repair of the bootloader if there isn't even one. Try disconnecting the old drive completely and then starting up with the windows dvd in. As far as I know you should get an option for startup repair or something like that. If that doesn't work and you haven't installed loads of things already, it would be the fastest to just reinstall it with the old drive disconnected.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;30330360]Yeah you didn't install the bootloader on the new drive. I [I]think[/I] that windows dvd is able to do a repair of the bootloader if there isn't even one. Try disconnecting the old drive completely and then starting up with the windows dvd in. As far as I know you should get an option for startup repair or something like that. If that doesn't work and you haven't installed loads of things already, it would be the fastest to just reinstall it with the old drive disconnected.[/QUOTE] Well if the old drive is going to be in sata0 then that mbr will be loaded first if he didnt do anything to the old drive. Technically if he swapped the cables so that the new drive was on sata0 then it would work
I would imagine it would take the boot order. Sata numbers are pretty much just numbers and they generally don't prioritize by numbers. To be safe, disconnect the old one still. Better that than "Oh it didn't work" and then another reinstall.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.