I'll try and explain this in a cohesive manner..
I've just purchased a new hard drive (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-257-SE&tool=3) as my current hard disk only has a rather pathetic 152GB of space (this was hastily installed a while ago as a stop gap). What I intended to do was install my new 1TB HDD as the main drive (which I would boot Win7 off) and keep the other drive connected purely as storage.
I decided to install Windows 7 as a clean install on the new hard drive (whilst the old one was still connected fyi) and it is all operational, however, the problem is as following:
- The new hard drive will not boot Windows 7 independently, the old hard drive still needs to be connected. This means I am unable to format the old drive as it is the active and system partition.
Without the old hard drive, it will not boot at all. Asks for a system disk.
- I have tried booting with the system repair disk but it just goes to a black screen now.
See screenshot below:
If you can make heads or tails of my issue then I would really appreciate some help on how I can fix this. Thanks!
I've just purchased a new hard drive (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-257-SE&tool=3) as my current hard disk only has a rather pathetic 152GB of space (this was hastily installed a while ago as a stop gap). What I intended to do was install my new 1TB HDD as the main drive (which I would boot Win7 off) and keep the other drive connected purely as storage.
I decided to install Windows 7 as a clean install on the new hard drive (whilst the old one was still connected fyi) and it is all operational, however, the problem is as following:
- The new hard drive will not boot Windows 7 independently, the old hard drive still needs to be connected. This means I am unable to format the old drive as it is the active and system partition.
Without the old hard drive, it will not boot at all. Asks for a system disk.
- I have tried booting with the system repair disk but it just goes to a black screen now.
See screenshot below:
If you can make heads or tails of my issue then I would really appreciate some help on how I can fix this. Thanks!