Can't install W7 to new drive....help!

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my PC came with a 1tb Seagate drive. I just got a new 2tb Seagate drive and I want to install W7 to the new 2tb one, and use the old 1tb for storage.

When I run the W7 disc installer I delete all partitions and then they say "Unallocated space".
I select the 2tb drive and when it gets to the last part "Finalazing installtion" it gives me an error message saying that W7 cannot be installed on this computers hardware. then I click "ok" and then I get another message that says "Windows could not configure windows, reinstall installation"......WTF??

both drives are the same brand and they've been inserted correctly; but I just can't get it to install to the 2tb drive...I'm going nuts trying to figure this out.

If I reinstall to the old 1tb it works fine, it just wont do it to the 2tb drive.

what am I doing wrong?? is it possible the drive is faulty? or is there some steps that I missed?


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
thanks in advance
 
When you connect a new drive of a larger capacity.
You must check that it is supported by the bios of the motherboard.
If the board you are using is more than two years old it may not be able to work with a drive over a set capacity size.

You need to look in the bios to see if it detected the drive and its correct storage size.
You may find there is a bios firmware update from the board makers website for your model number of your motherboard may add support for larger drives.

If the board does support the drive.
Then you should connect the new drive to the first sata port where the existing 1tb is plugged in, move the 1tb to the other.

Now sometimes, depending on the mode selected in the bios for the hard drive interface it can cause havock when windows installs.

This is because for example if Sata is selected.
Windows needs the drivers off the Mobo driver disk to be installed before you start to install windows.

On windows setup down on the bottom right is load drivers, this is when it gets to the point of where or what drive you want to install windows to.

The other way around the problem to stop the error can be setting the hard drive mode in the bios to Ahci mode.