Installing a WD-W10EZEX (Western Digital blue, 1tb)

Alfredo Ayala · Dec 8, 2013

So, old HDD crashed, remove it from bad PC.
Bought new one, installed it on good PC, formatted the drive on disk manager, assigned a letter to it.
Installed the HDD on the bad PC, on the same port as the old HDD.
Created a Windows installation disk on good PC.
Put installation disk on bad PC, turn it on.
Then Windows installer ask me on which drive do I want to install it.
The HDD won't appear, and I can't figure out what to do next.
The HDD does appear on Bios, and I set the DVD as the primary boot sequence, and the HDD as the second one. This is only for installation purposes, It will be changed later.
Please, any help will be gratefully received.
Thanks a lot

Paperdoc · Dec 8, 2013

What could be "wrong" is that the Install disk is looking for an EMPTY HDD, and yours already has a Formatted Partition on it, although it contains no data. At the beginning of the Install, does the process ask if you want to Delete any Partition it has found on the HDD? Do that if you can. You see, Install wants to make its own Partition and Format it before copying all the OS to it.

If the Install process does not offer you that option, try moving the new HDD back to the good machine and using Disk Management to Delete the Partition you created on it. Then move it back to the old machine and try.

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