First, my PC specs:
| Processor | 2,13 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo |
| Motherboard | FUJITSU SIEMENS MS-7293 1.00 |
| Graphics card | NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT |
| RAM | 4GB Corsair TWIN2X PC6400 DDR2 |
| HDD | 2x 250 Gb SATA (unknown brand) + 2x Samsung spinpoint F1 1tb |
| Monitors |
LG FLATRON L1952TQ 19' 5:4 |
BACKGROUND (Not necessary to read): About a year ago i bought 2 new 1tb HDD's. To my dismay, I realised I only had 2 SATA connections on my motherboard. Thus, I planned on emptying my old 250gig HDD's onto the new disks and installing a new operating system on one of them. Only, I made the mistake of trying to use the 'upgrade' function from within windows. The result was that my old XP installation disappeared irrevocably (that was a shock) and that even though I installed Vista on one of the new drives, it put the boot record on my old 250gb c:\ drive. Thus disabling the use of anything except that setup. After poking and prodding for a week or so, I finally gave up and started using this as a temporary setup.
PROBLEM 1: When the Windows 7 Beta arrived a while ago, I thought that would be a good time to get a new operating system. I tried to install it, but the installer simply would not recognise my new Samsung spinpoint drives. It only recognised the smaller ones, and I installed the Beta on one of those. I attributed this to it being a Beta version, and tried again with the RC, but no luck.
Now though, I have downloaded Windows 7 from MSDN, and it still does not want to recognise any of my 2 1tb HDD's. A friend of mine bought the exact same HDD's from the same place, and he hasn't had this problem at all. I REALLY want to install Windows 7 and get a workable windows. Does anyone have any idea of what could be wrong?
PROBLEM 2: Windows 7 (beta) does not want to recognise my new monitor as being able to handle 1920*1080. Vista didn't either, but I could force Vista to output the correct resolution. With Windows 7, any attempt I make to force the resolution only results in me getting 1600*1200 (which looks silly on a 16:9 screen). My monitor only runs on VGA, so I'm using a DVI>VGA adapter to get the signal from my graphics card to my screen. This appears to be a known problem for Windows 7, but none of the workarounds I have tried has worked. Any ideas?
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