Installing second HDD - System Partition issue

[Zenmau5]

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!

 

[Zenmau5]

Computer is now shutting down sporadically since I attempted to run system repair on the new HDD earlier - help?! Apologies for double post but computer is borderline unusable now!

 

[UnworthyBean]

You will need to disconnect the smaller of the two drive and then install Windows on to the 1TB drive.

The reason for this is it already has a bootloader (is that the correct word?) on it, When you try to install it on the new drive, it just adds a new entry in to the existing one, Not on the new drive.

 

[Zenmau5]

Thanks for the advice mate - appears to have solved the issue. Many thanks!

 

[wazza300]

just disconnect the smaller drive,put in your windows dvd disc and boot from it and do a startup repair

it will then fix the bootup