So I revieved a 2TB hard drive from a friend who was having problems with it and no longer wanted it, I openly took it thinking I would be able to get it functioning. I used Parted Magic booting off a flash drive to have a look at it as Windows was recognising it as a DVD drive. Either way, I deemed it unusable and shutdown to re-boot in Windows. Upon entering the BIOS to switch back to Windows Boot Manager I noticed that text option was no longer there, and only the hard drive on which Windows was located. I figured that was just a text thing and selected the hard drive anyway and proceeded to boot. I got the message "Re-boot and insert proper boot device"
Long story short, I've been trying to sort this out for nearly 6 hours and my patience is wearing extremely thin, if anyone has any ideas I would be extremely grateful as my PC is currently useless. I have tried booting with just the C: connected, in all sorts of different modes (SATA/UEFI etc) I tried putting the Windows 7 install disc in to attempt some kind of repair but that just went to start a fresh install.
The whole thing just strikes me as extremely strange considering I made special effort to stay away from C: while I was in Parted Magic. The only communication I had with it was when I tried to copy a few simple music files onto the 2TB hard disc to see if it operated (which it didn't, if anyone's curious) But yeah, I'm pretty much at a loss, so anyone's help would be amazing.
System Specs are as follows:
Intel Core i7 2600
Gigabyte GA Z77-D3H
Sapphire Radeon HD7850
16GB Adata standard RAM
650W PSU
Seagate Barracuda 1TB
(1 internal 256gb hard drive and 1 external 1tb hard drive, both disconnected for the time being)
Thanks in advance.
Long story short, I've been trying to sort this out for nearly 6 hours and my patience is wearing extremely thin, if anyone has any ideas I would be extremely grateful as my PC is currently useless. I have tried booting with just the C: connected, in all sorts of different modes (SATA/UEFI etc) I tried putting the Windows 7 install disc in to attempt some kind of repair but that just went to start a fresh install.
The whole thing just strikes me as extremely strange considering I made special effort to stay away from C: while I was in Parted Magic. The only communication I had with it was when I tried to copy a few simple music files onto the 2TB hard disc to see if it operated (which it didn't, if anyone's curious) But yeah, I'm pretty much at a loss, so anyone's help would be amazing.
System Specs are as follows:
Intel Core i7 2600
Gigabyte GA Z77-D3H
Sapphire Radeon HD7850
16GB Adata standard RAM
650W PSU
Seagate Barracuda 1TB
(1 internal 256gb hard drive and 1 external 1tb hard drive, both disconnected for the time being)
Thanks in advance.