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fishj123

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Hi guys, first of all I'm a total computer idiot so any solutions you can come up with will need to be written so that someone with little knowledge can understand.

I just installed a new 2tb hard drive to replace my 500gb hard drive. I physically installed it fine and I have formatted it I think. However my old hard drive is still the primary partition and in 'My Computer' it is still the C drive. How do I make this my new hard drive?

Also, I used EaseUS ToDo to clone my files from the old hard drive to the new one, however when I tried to run the pc with just the new hard drive plugged in it wouldn't let me, suggesting that Windows 7 has not been transferred to my new hard drive maybe? Or is that because the new hard drive is not the primary partition?

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BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA onto a separate partition on the new drive. Make a partition using the method you showed in image 1.
Next, find your windows install CD or USB or whatever. Make BIOS boot the windows installer, be it CD or USB. MAKE SURE! You've formatted the HDD before you BACKUP your data onto the separate partition, this way when you go to install windows it will not want to format the HDD and erase your backup. It shouldn't though since there would be 2 partitions. When the installer pops up, Install to the open partition on the HDD, Full size of the open partition.
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fishj123

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I'm pretty sure windows is already on my new hard drive though, when I click on the hard drive on my computer it has a folder called windows and it has all the same files in it that my old hard drive has.



I've already done that and nothing happened.
 
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You need to restart your computer. Pres Del to get into BIOS when it asks for it. Set the new HDD, to the first in the BOOT ORDER. , Chose Save and Reboot.

EDIT: Windows is clearly not installed onto your TB drive from looking at the second image. It may be formatted but not Windows installed.
Chose the TB drive to BOOT and install windows.

If you don't want windows on the new drive then your already fine.
 
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fishj123

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I'm pretty confident I've chosen the TB drive to boot in BIOS and it started up fine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I don't know why windows wouldn't be installed on it though because when I cloned it it was supposed to clone everything including the OS.
 
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fishj123

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It wouldn't let me boot. So windows must not be installed on the new hard drive. How can I install it from the old hard drive onto the new one?
 
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BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA onto a separate partition on the new drive. Make a partition using the method you showed in image 1.
Next, find your windows install CD or USB or whatever. Make BIOS boot the windows installer, be it CD or USB. MAKE SURE! You've formatted the HDD before you BACKUP your data onto the separate partition, this way when you go to install windows it will not want to format the HDD and erase your backup. It shouldn't though since there would be 2 partitions. When the installer pops up, Install to the open partition on the HDD, Full size of the open partition.
 
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