For the past couple of days, I've been trying to install Windows 7 alongside Windows 10 on my computer, with limited success. The first thing I tried was partitioning my 2TB secondary drive (mostly for games and general downloads) and installing it on that. I made a bootable USB drive, but then it just got stuck on "Starting Windows" every time. I then tried to format just the partition for whatever reason (I was desperate for some kind of solution), which ended with me losing over 700GB of data, and while it's sad, it's beside the point.
I ended up installing a third hard drive in my computer since I assumed that would work better. I took a different approach this time--I mounted the ISO, opened setup.exe, and tried to pick the drive to install it on (which by this point is already formatted and ready to go). When I selected the drive, it said: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that this disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
If there is a solution I'm missing that someone can inform me of, that would be fantastic. And, just in case it matters, here are my specs:
MSI MPG Z390M Gaming Edge AC
GeForce RTX 2070
16GB DDR4-3600
Intel Core i7-9700K (overclocked to 4.2GHz)
Crucial P1 500GB SSD (boot drive)
Seagate Barracuda Compute 2TB HDD (the one I wiped on accident, very sad)
WD Black 1TB HDD (the newly installed one)
Corsair TX850M
I ended up installing a third hard drive in my computer since I assumed that would work better. I took a different approach this time--I mounted the ISO, opened setup.exe, and tried to pick the drive to install it on (which by this point is already formatted and ready to go). When I selected the drive, it said: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that this disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
If there is a solution I'm missing that someone can inform me of, that would be fantastic. And, just in case it matters, here are my specs:
MSI MPG Z390M Gaming Edge AC
GeForce RTX 2070
16GB DDR4-3600
Intel Core i7-9700K (overclocked to 4.2GHz)
Crucial P1 500GB SSD (boot drive)
Seagate Barracuda Compute 2TB HDD (the one I wiped on accident, very sad)
WD Black 1TB HDD (the newly installed one)
Corsair TX850M