New HD install boot disk failure

[morbidman]

Hi, I recently installed a new HD in my windows 7 PC upon receiving some warnings and a bsod crash attributed to a hd failure.
My old HD could still function for hours on end and only gave me problems when I ran a specific game. In fact, it had been running for over 24 hours before I turned my PC off to attempt to replace the HD.
My old HD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB. The replacement is a WD Caviar Black 1TB.
When I added the new HD and connected it, I was given a boot disk drive failure message which prompted me to insert a system disk. Upon looking through the boot order, I could not find neither the old nor the new HD, although it would recognize my CD drive. When I opened the BIOS, the only thing that showed up in the boot order were bootable add on cards.
Next, I swapped cables and sata ports and still ran into the same problem.
Finally, even after resetting my CMOS, I still have the same problem. Does anyone knom of how to potentiallyrics solve this issue?
Also, if I have no choice but to reinstall windows on my new HD, would 8 still he able to move data from the old HD on to my new ome?

Thanks for your help.

 

[TheELF]

boot order is not the place to look,you have to tell your bios what drives are connected at which ports before you can choose your boot order,this often happens automatically but in your case you should check it.
old pc bios
new uefi bios

 

[morbidman]

Whoops false alarm. I must have pulled the power connector for my hdds loose from the PSU while I was adjusting them. I plugged it back in and everything seems to be in order for now and I'm cloning the drive as I type this. Thanks TheELF for your help!

 

[Charlie98]

That Seagate .12 is a decent drive... I would run a SMART check on it before trashing it. The fact that it was only giving you problems while using one program kind of makes me think it's a file problem, not necessarily a HDD problem.