had a really bad crash with laptop,so decided to format and add my windows 7 disc to do so but now when i go to setup it is saying it does not recognaise my harddrive?
View 12 RepliesI have a Lenovo Thinkpad T410. Win7 came pre-installed on hard drive without DVD copies. I want to put in a new solid state hard drive. Is there a way to create a Windows installation disc so I can format and install Win7 on the new hard drive? I know there's a copy of Win7 on a partition on the hard drive but I don't know what to do to make a DVD.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Windows 7 originally installed on an old HDD and recently purchased an SSD.How do I go about installing windows 7 into the SSD and deleting it from the old HDD?Is a reformat of the HDD the only way?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo I am building my first computer so i bought my new motherboard, processor,etc.. and windows 7, but i am using an old hard drive from my broken computer that has windows xp on it. Before it all gets to my house i was curious on how to wipe the hard drive and install windows 7.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWell my old hard drive with 750 GB burned down. So i took out a other hard drive with 80 GB. I am currently running on Windows XP. And i was thinking to re-install Windows 7. Is it ok to install it on 80 GB? Or will it have performance issues?Check systems specs for more information.NOTE: Hard Drive is not SATA or PATA. Its IDE
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a new motherboard cpu ram and windows 7. I'm using my old hard drive and what i want to know is whether it'd go nice and smoothly and will there be a option to completely erase my hard drive when i load windows 7 at the start since my old hard drive has windows vista.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to install a new harddrive 500GB/7200 rpm on my laptop. What is the procedure from installing a non formatet harddisk.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI bought an Off-The-Shelf desktop computer for gaming purposes, though unfortunately, I found out that upgrading it is not really easy, or possible. So, I decided to use the hard drive and DVD-R/W drive in a new build:It does come with an OEM Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition install on it, however, I have read that to upgrade the motherboard on it will not work due to the OS being Tied to the motherboard installed in it!
1. Is it possible to install a new OS ,Windows 7 Home Premium (the non-builder/non-OEM verison) over the previous one? and Also, how do I overwrite the old installation?
2. Do I really need to buy a new OS copy to build a new system?
new PC build Specs:
AMD Phenom 2 x4 975
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Thermaltake TR2-RX 850W black widow W0139
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Corsair Vengence 8GB 1600
NZXT Phantom 410-red
Cooler Master hyper 212+
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.12 (original HD from OEM system)
Generic DVD-R/W (unknown brand/model)
I just got a new computer, new hard drive and everything. I attempted to install Windows 7 (full version, NOT an upgrade) by putting the disc in, starting the computer, and booting from the BIOS. The monitor shows a bar that says that the Windows files are loading. Then it displays the little Windows logo. And finally it comes to a blue-ish screen with a bird on it (which I have been told is the sign-on screen) with a cursor. Nothing else. I've tried pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and running Safe Mode. Nothing works.
I have heard that the solution might have something to do with putting certain drivers onto a flash drive. Is that true? If so, um... explain. If not, explain that too.
When I try to install windows 7 I get to the point where you have to select which drive/partition you want to install it on. This is when the installation hits a brick wall. I had recently backed up and reformatted a 270GB partition of my HDD and decided to use that to install my windows 7 on it. The problem is that when I try to install it on that partition it says that I don't have enought space even though it has 270GB free. I've tried running the setup from windows xp and from the disc via reboot.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust upgraded all my hardware and windows needs reinstalling to reconfigure.Trouble is my existing dvd drives are IDE and my new motherboard has no IDE port. I have a copy of windows 7 on an external hard drive in the form of an iso and various files.Is it possible to plug it into a USB port and use the external to install 7 onto the internal? I'd rather not have to buy a Sata DVD drive.Would I need to wipe everything but windows 7 on the external
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow can i install win7 on a ext hd. I can boot win7 installation files from a ext usb drive, but i cant boot win7 itself.....
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have recently had to ditch my old computer windows xp, and bought a new Dell running windows Hoem repmium 7 (64 bit). I had a 32 bit ide external hard drive and had backed up my files there. Having got the enw copmpouetr set up I am trying to access my archived files on the 32 bit to transfer to new hard disk, but am unable to do so. Windows explorer locks up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedTried to installed windows 7 on a new installed hard drive. A message comes up "Windows did not installed. Installed windows" After clicking OK the computer just continues shutoff and reboots. Showing computer administered locked
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard disk. While installing Windows 7, a screen for hard disk partition was asked. I created 4 drives: 200 GB, 200 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB. And then the windows 7 got installed. But now when I log into my PC, I can only see first 3 200 GB drives. Where did my 400 GB drive go? What mistake did I do and how can I recover it back?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi was using win7 ultimate before and last day i tried to install a new win7 and in wich step that i had to choose a drive to install i sow this message "No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation." but in the windows that i was using all of the drives was working.and i installed win vista and no messages like this i sow.
ram:4g
video: ati radeon hd 5450
cpu:intel pentium 4 cpu 3.00 ghz 3.01ghz
Recently I dropped my Acer Aspire 1420-2039 notebook damaging the hard drive.I ordered a new WD Blue WD2500BEVT.Unfortunately the week before I dropped my computer, I installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.So I downloaded an .iso file of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, (What was originally installed on the computer when purchased) and downloaded the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool to re-install the OS using a USB Flash Drive since my computer does not have an optical disk.hen I get to the install screen, Windows will not let me select the hard drive with error 0x80300001 "Windows is unable to install to the selected location."Usually other forums suggest selecting the proper drivers for the drive, however WD does not have drivers available for download saying it uses windows' default drivers
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an old hard drive with a ton of pictures and other irreplaceable files on it from a computer I had few years back. In case it makes any difference, the computer that hard drive originally was in ran Windows XP Pro.I recently got a new computer, with Windows 7 and had the hard drive put into this new computer, along with the hard drive that came in the computer.I can get to the drive itself, but when I try to access folders or files, either access is denied or folders which should contain more folders, are empty. I have tried changing the permission and ownership options on the drive, but no luck.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe hard drive on my netbook is unreadable, so I cannot access the recover partition. I bought a new hard drive. Can I download windows 7 starter from the manufacturer website? My netbook is a dell inspiron mini.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've got a bit of a problem with the x64 Beta of Windows 7 which has got me stumped. When I tried previous builds (including the x86 version of the Beta) it installed fine on my second hard drive in my laptop (Drive E - I have partitions C: and D: on my main hard drive, which runs Windows Vista x86)
But when I install the x64 version of the Beta on Drive E, after Windows 7 boots (which it does fine) then the drive that Windows 7 is on shows in "Computer" as C: - my D: partition also shows up (and is correct) but my Vista drive does not show at all.
Does anyone know a way around this? When I install 7, I just select Drive E to install on as normal, so not really doing anything differnt, except, of course, you can only install the x64 version by booting off of the DVD - whereas when I install the x86 version, I always start setup from within Windows.
If I could resolve this it would be great - I have no problem with installing 7 again if needs be. I should also mention that Vista still boots fine from C.
I deleted the post because i realized thaT I had an older post here that came close to the same subject and no one replied - so i have no reason to believe anyone would reply to this one.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAlright, so after a few days of hardware checking I've determined that the cause of my computer being as messed up as it is is the hard drive.
Seagate's own SeaTools says it failed the drive tests, and I'm gonna have to call them later and get an RMA on it.
Well, how would I go about installing Windows 7 on my replacement hard drive? I've installed and activated it a few times on this same drive, but I think that's because the activation system detects the exact same hardware, therefore it lets me keep activating it.
If I put in a different hard drive, though, won't it see it as a different computer and deny me the chance to activate it? (Same goes with my OEM Student version of Office 2007)
So what would you guys suggest? Can I de-activate it from one computer then activate it on another? or what?
I have installed a few drives in my time. But something I do not understand has happened in drive manager in Win 7.Obviously I have to initialise a new drive before I can format and partition it, but when I go to initialise another box comes up and identifies the new drive and asks to I want to partition it with MFT tables?? Not seen that before I obviously dont want to move any boot partitions from my C drive.I have drive C with hidden boot partition, main active system partition and a data partition (logical).The new drive will be E, is 1TB and I want to partition into 4 logical drives. I know how to do it, query is what is the box that comes up and asks whether I want MFT or another version?? Is it safe to say OK.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have pre-purchased a Windows 7 professional upgrade and am trying to determine my install options when it is available.
I am currently running Windows Xp pro and have a computer with 2 identical hard drives. I know I will have to do a clean install from Xp. I would like to install Windows 7 on the second hard drive and be able to use both Windows 7 and Xp until I am familiar enough with Windows 7 to confidently abandon Xp.
I have a hard drive switch that I will use to boot to the OS that I want to use. I elected to do this instead of using dual boot. Currently that switch is not installed.
I would like to install Windows 7 on the second hard drive, but am concerned that I will need to verify that I have an authentic copy of Xp for that to work.
Will there be options during the install so that I can select the second drive as the place to install Windows 7 (and make it a bootable drive)? I would not like to get into a situation where I would be overwriting Windows Xp on the drive I currently boot from.
So I been trying to follow this guide, but it hasn't been working. I set the computer to boot from usb and then it will just sit there. I tried with an empty flash drive and it would say no bootable table or something similar, so it does detect my hard drive having something bootable and fails.
So far, despite following the directions, when I try to boot from the external hard drive it just hangs there and the screen never opens (unless I need to really wait a really long time).
It seems the missing detail is likely that I have to make the hard drive bootable.
However, so far, all the guides that talks about making them bootable requires to clean the drive (well flash, but I guess hard drives requires that too). That defeats one of the biggest selling points in this guide, no need to delete any files (also to note, I seperated the hard drive into two partitions as directed, the cmd only see them as one). So how does one make it bootable without clearing all the files.
Update: How to make your external HD bootable It seems that it should work for that person, I don't understand what is my problem. When I try to boot from USB, it just hangs there and the Windows7 setup never appears.
Another thing to note that this laptop is a dell 1520 which is powerful enough for the 64-bit, though currently I think it is on 32-bit vista.
I was wondering if it was possible to access a different hard drive on a computer via the network option on windows? All the computers on my home network are windows 7 and i'm always accessing stuff from a desktop file on my main computer to my laptop or onto my flat mates laptop/computer. I'm upgrading to a solid state pretty soon and hoping to put windows on my SSD and have all my files i'm usually sharing on my 2nd hard drive due to not having much space on my SSD. Is there any way to access a hard drive on your network that doesnt have windows 7 on? So I can access my files on my second HDD on my PC from my laptop. Normally all I can see is "Jon-PC" and that accesses the C: windows drive
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I had windows XP installed and decided to upgrade to 7.
I moved all of my files onto HD2 which is just a 1TB storage device, formatted HD1 and installed 7.
Problem is, I can't access HD2 to get all of my files.
I can see it in the BIOS, as well as on the Device Manager but it doesn't show up in Disk Management to assign it a drive letter.
It is enabled in Device Manager, I tried updating the driver and uninstalling/reinstalling and nothing has worked so far.
I need to get the data off this so formatting isn't an option.
i'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and its working great , lately i wanted to install windows 7 alongside Ubuntu because there's no itunes on it, the problem is W7 can detect my Hard Disk and it says a driver is required ,thought that W7 has all the sata drivers ,i've installed W7 a millions times before but never seen this message .
View 4 Replies View Relatedi'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and its working great , lately i wanted to install windows 7 alongside Ubuntu because there's no itunes on it, the problem is W7 can detect my Hard Disk and it says a driver is required ,thought that W7 has all the sata drivers ,i've installed W7 a millions times before but never seen this message .
View 4 Replies View Relatedi'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and its working great , lately i wanted to install windows 7 alongside Ubuntu because there's no itunes on it, the problem is Windows 7 can detect my Hard Disk and it says a driver is required ,thought that Windows 7 has all the sata drivers ,i've installed Windows 7 a millions times before but never seen this message .
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn my 8 years of serious computing, I have never had to replace a HDD but I am going to have to do it for the first time sometime earlier next week when the new one along with the recovery media from Acer gets here.I have managed to locate a service manual for my Acer Notebook model series here.The new HDD is a WD500BPKT @ 7200RPM The old HDD is a WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0 @ 5400RPM Will I need to install new drivers (SCSI etc.) or anything else, or is it a simple plug-and-play operation once the recovery media is booted off of the disks and installed?I suspect I will need to change the BIOS Boot Order so that the opticle drive is first rather than IDE 0 to get the disks to come up, so that's a non-issue.
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