Th new computer i just built will not boot from the hard drive that has windows vista ultimate loaded on it , and was working fine in my old computer, i was running mutiple os`s though and the seagate drive was dive letter D ? what do i need to do to get my new computer to boot from drive.
Now this is just my opinion but i tried to do the same thing one time and it would not work so I was left with one choice. Do a fresh install, I bought a second hdd and did a fresh install then plugged my original hdd in as a secondary so I could still access my old files.
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SOURCE: Boot difficulties Seagat Baracuda 7200, 300 GB
Could have something to do with the IDE being set to master.. It has been known that sometimes the SATA drive will take over as the master.. Try changing the IDE drive to cable select, and see if that helps.. If not, change the SATA to slave.
If that doesn't work, post your motherboard model# along with your bios name/version.. and we'll go from there.
As a side note: When they are connected the way they are now, does the bios show both drives?
SOURCE: it recognizes the new hard drive as a DVD drive
have you partitioned and formated it ? unless you do that to the drive it will not show up with a drive letter in windows. go into control panel, administrive tools, computer management, disk management - there you should see all your drives and you can partiton, format, assign or reassign drive letters to them. hope this solves your problem.
SOURCE: External drive not being accessible from Vista Home Premium x64
format the external drive,and try again,,,,,,
SOURCE: SEAGATE DRIVER ISSUE
It is a internal hard drive, which connects through IDE cable (the wide one), so you shouldn't be asked for drivers. If in any case you can't see this drive in your "My Computer" ("Computer" on Vista) it's probably because you have connected it wrong. Notice that the end of the IDE cable must be connected tou your main hard drive (where OS is instaled). If Seagate ST340015A is your main hard drive, than the end of the cable should be connected to it. If not, than on the same cable, about in the middle is another connection, you should use that one.
SOURCE: my computer does not see my external hard dive
Go to this webpage (Seagate) http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/ and choose from the SeaTools and FreeAgent Drivers that are appropriate for your OS and particular model. Formatting the harddrive should not have caused this problem of not being connected, but it is possible there was a piece of software that communicated with the computer that was removed via the format.
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