Making my new internal Hard Drive bootable, Win 7

Gowingnator

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I've read many threads, guides and God knows what else, and still nothing!

I've followed this guide : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/win7-windows-7-mbr,10036.html

Got only this on the hard drive : http://gyazo.com/e1fe188392d73eb3f1ac09f43823e52b

I've made a Windows 7 Recovery Disc.

When set the BIOS to boot from the new hard drive, it comes up with this message :

File: \boot\bcd

Status: 0xc0000098
and something about no Operating system found.

The hard drive I want to make bootable is drive H: http://gyazo.com/93ed0da848b3079bbea4562e7436166c

I've got a USB to SATA cable, so at the minute the new internal HD is being used externally.

Hope this is all the info needed, had this problem for about 2 weeks now, very annoying! Any help much appreciated :)
 
Disk 0 is the bootable drive already, why do you want to make Disk 1 bootable too? Just use it for storage.

Or, if your intention is to replace the old drive with the new one, you need "clone" the old one on to the new one with cloning software.

One thing's for sure, your new drive will never be bootable while there's no OS on it.
 

Gowingnator

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Yes, I want to replace it! :) So if I just cloned all the data from Disk 0 to Disk 1, and put OS on Disk 1, it'll be bootable? Also, how do I put OS system onto Disk 1? I've made a Windows 7 Recovery Disk, but that's it :s