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Qkush
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_ 		10. January 2010 @ 15:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi I got as a gift a western digital hard drive, and I fixed my buddy's car, he gave a Windows 7 ultimate key and CD( one use )so i can not get another one.

I installed the windows at the time in to a small hard drive 20 gig IDE( my bad) and now, I got a WDCWD5000 AAKS SATA drive.
I would like to install the windows on the on the WD drive very much. I read about people "imaging" the drives in this case so I downloaded a program called Macrium Reflect.

I installed the new hard drive and windows installs the drivers correctly, but dose not show up in My computer window, but it dose with Macrium.

so with Macrium do I have to get windows to "see" my drive before I try this?

one more thing correct me if i am wrong but if i back up my drive that has my OS on it on to the new one there could be no harm done right thanks
Qkush
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jony218
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_ 		10. January 2010 @ 18:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Macrium is all you need, as long as it sees the new drive that's all that matters. It will make a copy of the windows drive and install it on the new drive.

Has windows assign a drive letter to the new drive? that might be the reason it's not showing up under "my computer".
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Qkush
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_ 		10. January 2010 @ 19:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks for the reply
no windows did not give me drive a letter
when i try to use my Marcium i cant create the image because there is no where to send it to ( my hard drive) in the star up screen i see both drives c and e then when i try to make the image, i can only send the image to drive c no more e?
just cant use both i am guessing that its my windows thing
i am new to sata and trying to figer out whats going on
no jumpers so is that mean that i sata port one is master 2 is slave and so on?
thanks alot for the help you think its something to do with my bios?
my mobo is a asus p5kpl cm
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jerryp09
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_ 		14. January 2010 @ 08:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
May be is your hard problem contact your vendor and replace it
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