I tried to put the RTM of Win7 on an old drive that
once had a working (bootable) WinME on it.
(Single drive, standard PATA configuration.)
There was something about the mix of old and new bootloaders
that caused me all sorts of trouble.
IIRC it would still try to boot Win-ME, but could not...
I WIPED the old drive and everything went well after that.
Rick Glazier
From: "JRS"
I had something similar happen to me once with a drive I had been using for
Linux installs, dual booting or some such.
If I remember right, I had to use a Win PE or Linux disk to delete the partitions and reformat the thing, then the Windows
installer could see it..
From: Brian Weeden
I did not reformat them. I guess I should start there.
I found one of the 250GB drives that worked, so I'm guessing it is probably
an error along the lines of what Tim suggested. Once I'm done with the
re-install, I'm going to get one of those cool SATA docks and go through and
check and wipe all the drives just to make sure.
