installing new drives

[mikenmont]

i was installing new drives in desktop pc have done this before with no problems but due to location i had to remove the cables from my boot drive now i have all the drives listed on MB in the boot order in bios but cant boot the system from any drive it looks like i need to initialize the drives again but how do i do this when i can only access the bios and have no boot to enter the OS

 

[Ubrales]

Connect only the OS drive and boot the computer. When everything is OK, connect shut down, disconnect power from the computer, and then connect one more drive. Start and go to Device Manager (Control Panel) and initialize the newly connected drive NTFS. Shot down. Do similarly for the other drives you want to connect; one drive at a time.

If for some reason the OS drive is corrupted, you will have to re-install the OS and authorize it using the Windows key.

Don't forget to backup!

 

[mikenmont]

i wish it was that easy i have two boot drives and connected each one independanttly one did nothing but blue screen and the other say install a boot device and restart your pc like it does not even recognize the drive

 

[Ubrales]

i wish it was that easy i have two boot drives and connected each one independanttly one did nothing but blue screen and the other say install a boot device and restart your pc like it does not even recognize the drive

In that case, re-install Windows with just one drive connected. After Windows is installed, authorize it using the key provided by Windows. Then do a complete backup to an external drive.

After that add drives as necessary.

 

[mikenmont]

i wish it was that easy i have two boot drives and connected each one independanttly one did nothing but blue screen and the other say install a boot device and restart your pc like it does not even recognize the drive

In that case, re-install Windows with just one drive connected. After Windows is installed, authorize it using the key provided by Windows. Then do a complete backup to an external drive.

After that add drives as necessary.

 

[mikenmont]

ok heres some more info i disconect everything but the boot drive--by the way i have an EFI MB i have two boot devices one efi one normal so i take everything off and connect only the drive with the legacy and set MB to legacy mode and what i have is drive is listed in hard drive list but does not appear in the boot devices in fact i have no boot devices. so lets just reinstall W7 it loads files and copys normally but fails at the end in that it cannot reboot this drive so cant restart and repair option cannot find device to repair

 

[Ubrales]

ok heres some more info i disconect everything but the boot drive--by the way i have an EFI MB i have two boot devices one efi one normal so i take everything off and connect only the drive with the legacy and set MB to legacy mode and what i have is drive is listed in hard drive list but does not appear in the boot devices in fact i have no boot devices. so lets just reinstall W7 it loads files and copys normally but fails at the end in that it cannot reboot this drive so cant restart and repair option cannot find device to repair

When all else fails, get a new hard disk (or SSD if you prefer); they are inexpensive these days. Then connect just this new disk, and install the OS. This will work! After that, make a backup!

 

[mikenmont]

as i just said put in new drive and reinstall goes ok up to the
end when it has to reboot and says cannot restart from this drive

 

[Ubrales]

as i just said put in new drive and reinstall goes ok up to the
end when it has to reboot and says cannot restart from this drive

From where did you buy the Windows OS? What version?

 

[mikenmont]

as i just said put in new drive and reinstall goes ok up to the
end when it has to reboot and says cannot restart from this drive

From where did you buy the Windows OS? What version?

 

[mikenmont]

it is a fully legal version and was running fine up to last week its uefi MB and system is loaded in gpt for uefi partitions were visible in drive manager prior to this all i did was add the new ssd and i did pull out the cables on the other drives to repossition them and then go into bios to make sure the boot drive order was still correct and reboot then nothing since then i have disconnected all drives but one and it still wouldnt boot wont repair from disc and wont re install, it does look like the MB file is not interfacing with hard drives but dont know what file or how to repair it is this the EMI file or bios that needs looking at

 

[Ubrales]

"Fully legal" and "working OS" may mean two different things. If you have the legal Windows key, re-installing the OS will work.

 

[mikenmont]

"Fully legal" and "working OS" may mean two different things. If you have the legal Windows key, re-installing the OS will work.

 

[mikenmont]

NO the OS will not install even on a new drive when installing it fully loads all files and looks good till the final point when it will not reboot to finish install -drive not regognized

 

[Ubrales]

NO the OS will not install even on a new drive when installing it fully loads all files and looks good till the final point when it will not reboot to finish install -drive not regognized

When the OS is legal, the drive is new and good, PSU is adequate and good, and Windows will not install, start looking at the motherboard. Your motherboard may be defective.

 

[mikenmont]

NO the OS will not install even on a new drive when installing it fully loads all files and looks good till the final point when it will not reboot to finish install -drive not regognized

When the OS is legal, the drive is new and good, PSU is adequate and good, and Windows will not install, start looking at the motherboard. Your motherboard may be defective.

 

[mikenmont]

ok old pal that's what I thought I was updating the bios file to the same file and doing reload but was not sure about this so installed old bios version and we are back up running so here is the other part of the problem I want to reinstall W8 on the new ssd that is 240 gb I want to use gpt fat 32 for uefi so I did command prompt and select disk and clean and set gpt all good but when I load the OS it cannot install or set partitions to disc I am thinking this is something to do with setting fat32 files on the drive they say you cannot do this on large drives but this is rubbish cos I did it last time --cant remember how

 

[mikenmont]

as i just said put in new drive and reinstall goes ok up to the
end when it has to reboot and says cannot restart from this drive

From where did you buy the Windows OS? What version?

 

[mikenmont]

just to finish off finally found corrupt files in the CMOS which was preventing the system booting into drive ports 1 and 2 for some reason changed over the SSDs into ports 3 and 4 and all went ok so 1 and 2 where disabled I had already updated the BIOS file so I back dated to an older file and updated again and that done the job. reported back into 1 and 2 and all good now. thanks for input