Hi I got as a gift a western digital hard drive, and I fixed my buddy's car, he gave a Windows 7 ultimate key and CD( one use )so i can not get another one. I installed the windows at the time in to a small hard drive 20 gig IDE( my bad) and now, I got a WDCWD5000 AAKS SATA drive. I would like to install the windows on the on the WD drive very much. I read about people "imaging" the drives in this case so I downloaded a program called Macrium Reflect. I installed the new hard drive and windows installs the drivers correctly, but dose not show up in My computer window, but it dose with Macrium. so with Macrium do I have to get windows to "see" my drive before I try this? one more thing correct me if i am wrong but if i back up my drive that has my OS on it on to the new one there could be no harm done right thanks Qkush
Macrium is all you need, as long as it sees the new drive that's all that matters. It will make a copy of the windows drive and install it on the new drive. Has windows assign a drive letter to the new drive? that might be the reason it's not showing up under "my computer".
thanks for the reply no windows did not give me drive a letter when i try to use my Marcium i cant create the image because there is no where to send it to ( my hard drive) in the star up screen i see both drives c and e then when i try to make the image, i can only send the image to drive c no more e? just cant use both i am guessing that its my windows thing i am new to sata and trying to figer out whats going on no jumpers so is that mean that i sata port one is master 2 is slave and so on? thanks alot for the help you think its something to do with my bios? my mobo is a asus p5kpl cm
