FrozenSpider Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I bought a new SSD hard disk the other day and installed new windows 7 on it. i didn't clone anything or copy anything from the old previous 2 hard drives that i had. Everything went well with no problem, until i saw after the instalation that 1 of my normal hard drives is not to be found. In bios the computer sees them all, 3 of them, but in windows i can only find 3 partitions wich are: http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/5830/95858199.jpg i am missing another 500 Gb hard disk. i tried moving around the sata cables thinking i did them wrong, i still think that, and then it switch to the old windows that i had before installing the SSD one. There i had no problem and i could see all 3 hard drives. I don't have a photo because i formated that HHD :D but it was something like this C:/ - my old windows 500 Gb HHD D:/ - the other 500 Gb HHD E:/ - the 120 Gb SSD HHD Then i thought i would format the old windows HHD and it will just skip to the next HHD that has a windows on it and all will be fine :D, well it didn't work, it just said that windows missing and wouldn't start. Switched the sata cables again and now i am running only on my SSD and 1 normal HHD. Any tips? The SATA cables are: SATA 1 - SSD SATA 2&3 - 2 normal HHD SATA 4 - DVD Tried removing both HHD, just letting the SSD, and windows still not working, i don't understand why, it's the only one that has windows on it. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Check Disk Manager. Are the drives detected there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nec_V20 Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 The Win7 installation routine is too "intelligent" for its own good and can be pretty much a PITA if you have an existing boot drive in your system. You best bet is, disconnect all harddrives except for the SSD you want to install. Install Win7 on that clean, then connect back the other harddrives make your SSD the boot drive in BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenSpider Posted April 19, 2013 Author Share Posted April 19, 2013 The Win7 installation routine is too "intelligent" for its own good and can be pretty much a PITA if you have an existing boot drive in your system. You best bet is, disconnect all harddrives except for the SSD you want to install. Install Win7 on that clean, then connect back the other harddrives make your SSD the boot drive in BIOS. yea, i was thinking of that, i supose i can do it today. hope it works. wish me luck. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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