Alright, hi there guys!
So, I'm in need of a little bit of help building my own PC. I'm not the best when it comes to computers and I decided to build my own after my old PC pretty much outlived it's usefulness, and began to show it's age.
I went out and bought some things to get myself going, and I botched quite a bit in the hook up(messed the whole cpu up cause I'm clumsy and not very bright) So now I'm sitting on an MSI 970a mobo with my crap old AMD dual core in it for the moment, 8Gb ddr3 ram, a video card from 2010, a non partitioned 1tb hdd and a 700w power supply.
How the heck do I partition a HDD? I don't have another HDD except for this blank one, I've googled and YouTubed possible ways to do this with no avail. I'm using a legal version of Windows 7. I'm pretty sure this is my biggest issue atm, I think if I could at least get the PC booting to windows I could figure out all the rest. I get to BIOS, BIOS reads that there is a HDD in the SATA port, however upon attempting to install Windows 7 on it(with a disk btw), the hdd doesn't appear in the choose location part of installation. When it does it says "Drive X" and doesn't allow me to do anything with it. I have a WD 1tb Blue HDD. I'm at a loss there, my external HDD that I've had for awhile will show up, but I'm not able to install an OS to it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I'm seriously losing my mind and feeling like I've really just wasted money trying to do this myself instead of just buying a prepared PC.
Please forgive my sloppy grammar and probably spelling, 27 hours and going now
Thanks,
J
So, I'm in need of a little bit of help building my own PC. I'm not the best when it comes to computers and I decided to build my own after my old PC pretty much outlived it's usefulness, and began to show it's age.
I went out and bought some things to get myself going, and I botched quite a bit in the hook up(messed the whole cpu up cause I'm clumsy and not very bright) So now I'm sitting on an MSI 970a mobo with my crap old AMD dual core in it for the moment, 8Gb ddr3 ram, a video card from 2010, a non partitioned 1tb hdd and a 700w power supply.
How the heck do I partition a HDD? I don't have another HDD except for this blank one, I've googled and YouTubed possible ways to do this with no avail. I'm using a legal version of Windows 7. I'm pretty sure this is my biggest issue atm, I think if I could at least get the PC booting to windows I could figure out all the rest. I get to BIOS, BIOS reads that there is a HDD in the SATA port, however upon attempting to install Windows 7 on it(with a disk btw), the hdd doesn't appear in the choose location part of installation. When it does it says "Drive X" and doesn't allow me to do anything with it. I have a WD 1tb Blue HDD. I'm at a loss there, my external HDD that I've had for awhile will show up, but I'm not able to install an OS to it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I'm seriously losing my mind and feeling like I've really just wasted money trying to do this myself instead of just buying a prepared PC.
Please forgive my sloppy grammar and probably spelling, 27 hours and going now
Thanks,
J