Why can't I install my windows 7 on the WD blue WD10ezex HDD that the dell optiplex1090 comes out with. I have been struggling with it for a week now

Ben Wabnick

• 2404 Answers
• Posted on Jul 06, 2009

SOURCE: Installed new WD HDD in dell 8400 unable to boot from CD

Make sure that the operating system cd has no smudges, dirt, dust, etc on it.

What I would do since you have two optical drives in the system. Disconnect one of the drives at first and only hook up one of the optical drives and make sure the jumper on the back is set to master.

Go into the BIOS and reset the bios defaults and have it redect the hardware in the system after this you'll get the same message so reboot into the BIOS and set the optical drive as the first boot device. Hopefully it will read the cd and you press and key to boot up off of the cd.

If this doesn't work then repeat all the steps i mentioned for the 2nd optical drive. Hopefully it will read the cd properly with this drive. Im checking to see if one or both drives have bad lasers in them.

If the 2nd drive doesn't read it then at this point disconnect the hard drive completely from the system and then turn it on and see if the optical drive can read the cd, if it does at this point then that means your new hard drive is defective cause its shorting out the secondary controller on your motherboard.

Let me know how things go and I'll help you further if you need some more help.

SOURCE: I have a dell dimension e520 and I just bought a

The blue screen you are seeing is probably not the regular BSOD (blue screen of death)

Wat you need is the DOS SATA drivers for your adaptor on floppy or some other suitable form (USB formatted as a floppy)

I think you may have missed it but as the XP CD is booting at the bottom of the screen was a message that said "press F6 to install additional storage drivers"

You should have hit F6

In a little while it will then ask you for those drivers and you just point it at the floppy or other device set to act as a floppy.

Now it will load them and let you continue setup.

otherwise it will quite often fail as it may no know how to find the SATA drive.

SOURCE: sata hdd windows dell recovery cd will partition install windows

The system is originally designed to use IDE HDD, make sure the necessary chages for Sata HDD are made in the BIOS, next make sure the Recovery disc is fine without any scratches. You can order a new Windows OEM recovery disc by calling Dell tech support (1-800-624-9896-US) and try installing the OS. The disc will cost you not more than $12.