I had a IDE HDD issue, so got a new SATA HDD pimary drive and thought may as well stick windows 7 on. The new system setup is outlined below.
OS: Windows XP Professional (SP3)
CPU: Athlon Phenom 9850 Quad Core
RAM: 4GB Non-ECC Crucial
HDD:
1 - 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 1 (Main drive - NO OS. CANT INSTALL W7!)
2 - 750GB Seagate Barracuda SATA 2 (Storage drive)
3 - Pioneer DVD-215 Dual Layer SATA 3
4 - Pioneer DVD-212 Dual Layer SATA 4
VGA: Geforece 8500GT
Sound: Creative Soundblaster Live 4
PSU: EZcool 1050W
USB 2.0 Hub: Running 9 peripherals
The problem I now have is that I have 2 SATA hard drives, all formatted and recognized by BIOS and windows. I put my new windows 7 DVD into the drive and selected boot from CD, but it doesnt seem to recognise it.
I get "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT DISK".
So clearly the setup process is not recognising the new drive as the primary boot up device and using the disk to load w7 onto it.
If I replug in the old soon-to-die IDE hard drive and access wnidows setup from there it works, but during setup initialization I get an error message saying a file is missing and setup cannot continue.
Any suggestions? Does it have anything to do with RAID? The only solution I can see is to install WAIK on my IDE drive, then use that to install from there to the new drive, but there GOT to be an easier way, right???
Also what's the best way to get all my settings onto the new drive, once windows is on there? Should I use a hard disk imager and transfer like that? or is it better to manually install everything from scratch (which will be a pain in the ass!)...
