New Harddrive

thedude23 · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:41

Hi
I've decided to buy a new hard to replace my old one and upgrade to windows 7 and I'm just wondering is it just a case of taking out the old HDD and putting in the new one,booting up the computer and putting the windows 7 disk in? Will I have to go into the bios or anything?

help appreciated

Swordfish · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:42

Win 7 will detect new drive and that is blank and start loading up install files.

If not select the bios boot option to select your boot drive option (F8 etc)

thedude23 · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:46

Swordfish said:
Win 7 will detect new drive and that is blank and start loading up install files.

If not select the bios boot option to select your boot drive option (F8 etc)

Thanks,so its not that hard an operation to do then

?

Swordfish · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:47

thedude23 said:
Thanks,so its not that hard an operation to do then ?

No - its simple, as long as it is a standard SATA drive. If it's an SSD you will need to make sure the BIOS is setto ACHI to get the best out of it.

thedude23 · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:53

Swordfish said:
No - its simple, as long as it is a standard SATA drive. If it's an SSD you will need to make sure the BIOS is setto ACHI to get the best out of it.

No its not a SSD I'm getting just a normal 1tb HHD Drive,For drivers I have the motherboard cd,graphics card cd and a vga cd,will I need anything else?

bradders2000 · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:39

Forget what's on the CDs - they're usually out of date the second they're created!

Get the current version of all the drivers you need from the various websites and put them on a USB stick. Don't forget the network card / audio driver too.