Spartan927

I've tried reinstalling Windows on both my SSD and HDD and nothing changed. Is there some way to force the drive to completely wipe itself?

I've tried 10 on my laptop and I prefer 7. That said, I've tried upgrading to 10 for a completely new OS and it failed. (Go figure.) I'm running out of options here.

I'm using a windows 7 installation disk.

No, I couldn't get that far. It crashed here:

I tried this. I unplugged the HDD, turned on the computer, loaded the disk, and the system started loading windows installer and crashed with an error message stating that the computer couldn't find the hardware it needed. I can't do anything without the HDD plugged in.

I'm upgrading from a single HDD to an SSD as my main drive and the old HDD will be backup storage. I installed windows 7 on the SSD and tried formatting the HDD to clean it out, but it won't work. I get errors saying that the disk is still in use and it cancels the process. I've tried diskpart, disk management, moving the page file to the SSD, reinstalling windows on both drives, and booting without the HDD plugged in but then I get an error saying the system can't find hardware. The SSD is already my main boot drive but it absolutely refuses to let me reformat the HDD. Please, someone help me.

The option to delete partitions wasn't there. I took out the drive and started up my comp and began installing when this happened:

I used to use a single HDD for my storage, including boot. I just got a new SSD that I want to keep as my main boot drive and use the old HDD as just storage. I put windows on the old drive and registered it as the main drive but I can't format the old one. Attempting to format gives me the error saying that the drive is still in use, even though it's not. All I want is a clean wipe of the old HDD. Things I've tried: diskpart disk management moving page file reinstalling windows on both drives

I want to replace my Boot HDD with the new SSD and put the two HDDs in raid 1. To be clear, I'm going for a fresh install of windows 7 on the SSD, I don't want to migrate my data. Problem is, my computer is only seeing the boot disk, not the spare HDD or SSD. I can see them in bios under boot options, but attempting to boot the SSD just gives me a message to restart my computer.

I'd upgraded to the G2 650W, is that still not good enough? Do I need more wattage, efficiency, what?

Thanks for all the help guys! I think I finally have my complete list. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7R86cf With CPU total is ~$1050.

Here's what I'm thinking: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gah97md3h But does it work with my CPU?

How about this? Good size, good price: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam

Can you clarify your first point? Are you saying what I picked out is overkill? I'd like a fast SSD with plenty of space for a few games, that's what I thought I picked.

Looking for a new motherboard. The SSD is just what I heard was good, I don't know much about them.