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Windows 7 2nd HD Issue

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Chiefthawk

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Rebuilt my sons computer. I put a new SSD and new HD in it. Having issues getting Windows to see 2nd drive. When I read online I see others get a popup that walks you through setup but I didn't. Also, Windows threw the "system reserved" on the 2nd drive.

Disk 0 SSD 232.88 GB NTFS (Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Disk 1 [System Reserved 150 MB NTFS Healthy] [1862.87 GB Unallocated]

Do I need to wipe it and re-install so that the boot files are not copied to the 2nd drive?

Running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

Help!
Thanks,
Chief
 
From what I can gather, even though the OS installation did apparently make use of the second physical drive to allocate the 150 MB of System Reserved goodies, only a small 150 MB partition on that same drive was created, leaving the rest of the 2 TB of space unformatted.

Consequently, there's no partition for Windows to see. You'll have to format the remaining unallocated space. You can simply do so with this free program. That should sort it.

JD
 
Do the installation with only the ssd install.then after allt intallation done plug in the hd. remember to be careful for static.
 
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denis280 said:
Do the installation with only the ssd install.then after allt intallation done plug in the hd. remember to be careful for static.
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This is what I was thinking of doing but then won't the [System Reserved 150 MB NTFS Healthy] still be there on my 2nd drive when I plug it in?
 
Probably. What a fine pickle. Once you have windows installed on the SSD, without the HDD installed, it should allow you to reformat and repartition the HDD after you plug it in.
 
Windows is notorious for this. As a general rule, only install Windows with one hard drive connected. Once that is complete, you will be fine to add in the other hard drive and delete the partitions you don't want. The new Windows installation will only use the System reserved partition from its install.
 
SOLVED by disconnecting the 2nd drive. Doing a fresh re-install of Windows on the SSD. Reconnected the 2nd drive after install and formatted.
 
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