Hello everyone.
I am having troubles installing windows 7 onto my hard drive. The computer I am trying to install it on is a Dell latitude E4610 Core I5 2.6GHZ 4GB RAM
When I click to partition the drive I get the message
“Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk’s controllers is enabled in the bios menu”
I have read from multiple sources that in this situation, I should change the bios from IDE to AHCI. My desktop is set to AHCI, and attempting to install windows on the hard drive using my desktop was unsuccessful. I have tried reformatting and erasing the partition with no success.
However in the bios I changed the boot option from legacy to UEFI and it was able to install to the hard drive. After the initial reboot the computer did not detect any bootable device. I switched the boot option back to legacy, and it worked.
After installing the drivers and using my computer, I noticed that after a minute of use, the computer began to run extremely slow, opening a webpage would crash the browser; folder would not open without crashing explorer. None of these things should happen as this is a newly reformatted hard drive.
In the end I used a different hard drive for my laptop and the installation of windows went smoothly, without issue.
The previous hard drive I had problems with appears to function fine. It was used as my backup storage, and it worked perfectly well. Could it be possible that this hard drive is somehow in the incorrect format? Is there any way to make this hard drive usable as a primary hard drive, or is it broken?
-Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am having troubles installing windows 7 onto my hard drive. The computer I am trying to install it on is a Dell latitude E4610 Core I5 2.6GHZ 4GB RAM
When I click to partition the drive I get the message
“Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk’s controllers is enabled in the bios menu”
I have read from multiple sources that in this situation, I should change the bios from IDE to AHCI. My desktop is set to AHCI, and attempting to install windows on the hard drive using my desktop was unsuccessful. I have tried reformatting and erasing the partition with no success.
However in the bios I changed the boot option from legacy to UEFI and it was able to install to the hard drive. After the initial reboot the computer did not detect any bootable device. I switched the boot option back to legacy, and it worked.
After installing the drivers and using my computer, I noticed that after a minute of use, the computer began to run extremely slow, opening a webpage would crash the browser; folder would not open without crashing explorer. None of these things should happen as this is a newly reformatted hard drive.
In the end I used a different hard drive for my laptop and the installation of windows went smoothly, without issue.
The previous hard drive I had problems with appears to function fine. It was used as my backup storage, and it worked perfectly well. Could it be possible that this hard drive is somehow in the incorrect format? Is there any way to make this hard drive usable as a primary hard drive, or is it broken?
-Any help is greatly appreciated.
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