I got a new hard drive, installed it, partitioned it, formatted it, transferred all the data from the old one to my new one, and that all worked fine, or at least I thought. I then disconnected the cables from the old hd and put the new HD as primary. Now when I turn it on it displays "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device". I've tried switching jumpers, different bios settings (yes, the HD is recognized), and the cables are securely attached. I booted from my emachines restore cd into the command prompt and when I tried to change directory to C it said it was an invalid drive. Same thing for E. Anyone know what's going on?
Hi, Did you transfer the operating system to the new drive? If you did and it's windows this will not work. You need a fresh windows install if you have a new main drive. If you just transfered other files without windows, you have your boot order wrong, check bios and boot order. IF all else fails, google for bootfix, and install + run it from cmd. Hope this helps.
Yes, no need to format partition as windows dose it on install. Set your new drive with new windows installed to master. Set your old drive to slave. Is this what your looking for?
well you can do that to get any needed info/files off the drive you want to save. Then i suggest using killdisk.com and write zeros to your old drive. Then you can just leave it in there for more extra space.
Do not transfer. Use cloning software. Clone the drive C from old harddisk to drive C into new harddisk using clone software like Acronis or sort. It work with me.