Windows 7 on a 2.5 hdd wont boot after moving to a new computer

[Colin Hartigan]

Hey guys. So here is the problem. I recently acquired a old DELL Precision 450 Series Workstation, its pretty old but still works fine. Anyway I also have a laptop which is my secondary computer and I took the 2.5 HDD out of it and then plugged it into a sata to usb 2.5 hdd adapter, most of you know what it is so yeah. So when I changed the BIOS boot order to boot to USB, everything goes fine, until the OS tries to load then I get one of the famous Windows boot screens, Windows cannot boot blah blah blah this could be due to a recent hardware or software change. please insert your windows installation disk. I dont have the disk anymore so I went around on the web and found and trustworthy site to download an ISO, I then used the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool to burn it too a disk. heres where the problem is, I dont even think it is recognizing the disk, I tell it to boot to the IDE CD/DVD drive and it just black screens and tells me to retry or go to the setup utility, I have tried it with two working cd/dvd drive and I really can figure this out, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

 

[captainmumoy]

is the hdd showing up in the bios?

 

[Supermuncher85]

Did you burn the .iso to the dvd or did you burn the image?

 

[Alabalcho]

You cannot boot (easy) Windows off USB. And even if you manage it (once again, not very easy, and you have to be master), it will be slooowww.

Connect your laptop drive natively to that Dell (thru SATA port), and then start over.

 

[Colin Hartigan]

You cannot boot (easy) Windows off USB. And even if you manage it (once again, not very easy, and you have to be master), it will be slooowww.

Connect your laptop drive natively to that Dell (thru SATA port), and then start over.

it doesnt have any sata ports, thats how old it is

 

[Colin Hartigan]

Did you burn the .iso to the dvd or did you burn the image?

I downloaded the ISO and then used the Microsoft Windows dvd/usb tool, i selected the file and then it did the rest.

 

[Alabalcho]

You are asking too much from that old boy... I am not even sure it is 64-bit compatible, so try booting x32 DVD. If you have troubles booting installation DVD with Windows, there are little chances it will ever work with it.

This Dell was manufactured 2002 - well before SATA drives were popular, that's why it has IDE and SCSI only. Leave it to die with dignity.