I've got several 250 GB Seagate drives that used to be in my HTPC RAID.
They've been replaced by 1 TB drives so now I'm looking to use them
elsewhere.
I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I just purchased on
one of those drives. The drive detects perfectly fine in BIOS, has no
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:31 AM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Win 7 setup not recognizing drives
I've got several 250 GB Seagate
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:31 AM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Win 7 setup
Brian,
Did you reformat (erase) these 250GB drives before you put them in storage?
Or, do you mean you can not even get W7 to reformat these drives?
That would be a pisser!
As they were p/o a raid array, W7 may be seeing some special formatting
in the initial sectors (by the raid controller)
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
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From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 9:32:40 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Win 7 setup not recognizing drives
I did not reformat them. I
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
