| Killergran said: 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?
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Actually system thing is very simple.
When you put new HDD you most probably haven't changed HDD drive priority (which tells computer in which it should start looking for OS).
For now i think you should :
a) put both HDDs into computer
b) go to bios and make sure that Sata mode is set to IDE
c) check HDD boot priority so the first one is the drive you want to use as your OS drive.
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