After spending about a full year messing with a new hard drive, attempting to install windows with service pack 1, without service pack one, install updates from Microsoft website only to have the updates corrupt the windows installation, I finally wized up and unplugged my good working hard drive (smaller drive) and installed windows onto my larger drive. I was successful with this and I have taken image backups of the drive. I was able to install an anti virus program (Avast) without corrupting the windows installing. (which is what it always did after numerous attempts) What a screwed up stupid way things work.
Let me explain, in the past I installed windows 7 onto my larger drives with both drives plugged in. The dual drive menu worked fine. However, I could not install Avast or AVG onto the windows installation. Both of these programs corrupted the windows installation. The program could not be fixed and I spent weeks with this problem. It is truly ridiculous the amount of time I spent. Every single time windows got corrupted it went into startup repair and the problem could not be fixed. EVER. This startup repair is the most completely worthless piece of crap ever written by Microsoft programmers. It has expended 100 hours of my time. Do I get a medal for attempting to use Microsoft startup repair?
Now that I have windows on both my drives, when I start my computer, with both drives connected to the computer, my system automatically starts on the larger drive with the new installation. If I disconnect the larger drive, and start with just my original I can start my older drive, and I'm presented with the dual drive menu. I only get this menu with the larger drive unplugged from the motherboard. This is no good and need the menu with both of them plugged in. I start the machine with it unplugged and I get the dual drive menu, then I plug in the new drive and attempt to start it and it fails. So what do I have to do to make my dual drive work? I don't need any problems here from this point forward.
Let me explain, in the past I installed windows 7 onto my larger drives with both drives plugged in. The dual drive menu worked fine. However, I could not install Avast or AVG onto the windows installation. Both of these programs corrupted the windows installation. The program could not be fixed and I spent weeks with this problem. It is truly ridiculous the amount of time I spent. Every single time windows got corrupted it went into startup repair and the problem could not be fixed. EVER. This startup repair is the most completely worthless piece of crap ever written by Microsoft programmers. It has expended 100 hours of my time. Do I get a medal for attempting to use Microsoft startup repair?
Now that I have windows on both my drives, when I start my computer, with both drives connected to the computer, my system automatically starts on the larger drive with the new installation. If I disconnect the larger drive, and start with just my original I can start my older drive, and I'm presented with the dual drive menu. I only get this menu with the larger drive unplugged from the motherboard. This is no good and need the menu with both of them plugged in. I start the machine with it unplugged and I get the dual drive menu, then I plug in the new drive and attempt to start it and it fails. So what do I have to do to make my dual drive work? I don't need any problems here from this point forward.