New Hard Drive Causing Problems

[adman29]

Hi guys, I kinda need help on this one

So I just got a new seagate hard drive, and what I thought would be a quick and easy swap turned out not to be. Whenever I switched one hard drive out for the other, I could no longer boot from my SSD, and received a message stating that the computer would be booting from the CD/DVD drive. Then when I went into the boot devices menu, and told it to boot from the SSD, that failed too. So I put the old hard drive back in, and hey presto! I can boot back to windows, however seeing that It's failing I really want to install the new seagate drive ASAP

Any help would be really useful. Thanks in advance!

 

[WinNut]

It's because the boot partition is being stored on the HDD. Try taking out all of the drives but the SSD, inserting the Windows installer disc, and running Bootrec.exe from the command prompt.

[adman29]

It's because the boot partition is being stored on the HDD. Try taking out all of the drives but the SSD, inserting the Windows installer disc, and running Bootrec.exe from the command prompt.

Ok, did that, however the BIOS isn't recognizing the hard drive. It is spinning up though.

[dragoon20005]

have you swapped the SATA cables to the different ports?