New computer hard drive help

[NickS VR4]

Yeah. If you have a way to boot from bios into Windows installation. Disconnect your old drives, leaving only the new one, then try and let it install.

[a2j]

While in Ubuntu, I'd use Disk Utility to check health of the device, if it shows up on the list.

[Goallie11]

It says the disk is ok. I'm thinking the problem was having my other hard drive in there, donno why but I'll find out soon enough if this works.

[NickS VR4]

Like I said. Its weird to me that this new drive is labeled disk0 when the primary is C:\. I think there is a conflict between your drives. Maybe your old one has jumpers on it making it primary. Dont know why the new one, without jumpers is also trying to be primary as well.

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[Alan92RTTT]

SATA drives don't have jumpers. Only IDE(maybe SCSI) drives do.

[NickS VR4]

SATA drives don't have jumpers. Only IDE(maybe SCSI) drives do.

How are the designated Primary and Secondary? Bios? Control Board?

Last time I really worked on comps was in 2002. Been on laptops since, and don't fix other peoples anymore.

[Alan92RTTT]

SATA drives are one drive to a cable. None of the IDE 2 drives on a cable silliness

[Goallie11]

I've got Ubuntu installed on the 1TB drive now, and early attempts to install the windows 8 rc have failed. I mounted the iso but it just wouldn't run the setup. I'm gonna try putting the iso onto a flash drive in the same way that ubuntu is runnable from a flash drive and see if that works. I'm kinda doubtful about it though.

[Goallie11]

Interesting development. Ubuntu will not boot correctly when I have the old hard drive (the one with windows 7) plugged in. But it boots when I put my other 500 gig hard drive in. This is leading me to believe that the hard drive with windows 7 for some reason tries to take over any booting process.

[Goallie11]

Alright I got windows 8 rc running now on the 1TB. It's very different than windows 7, the menu's seem to be harder to get to than needed but I'm figuring it out.

I should have just gone this route in the first place instead of pulling out old hard drives, installing Ubuntu and crap. Now I've got to figure out a way to get Ubuntu off of my laptops hard drive so I can use it.