1. I purchased a USB to SATA/IDE cable since I wanted to transfer data from an old HDD(about 13 yrs) to my PC.
2. My PC is Acer Aspire x3400 which has been holding up well, Win7 64bit installed.
3. I connected the cables to the old HDD and went into Disk Management, Windows does seem to recognize old HDD but cannot read it.
4. Right clicked and changed 'Disk 0'(the old HDD) to 'Dynamic', did not make difference.
5. While googling, I found a way of changing Dynamic HDDs to Basic.. I don't know why I had to do that..ugh.
Anyways I used a program called HxD to do the exact following..
http://strangelyperfect.tv/6415/how-to-convert-a-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk-in-windows-7/#sthash.uNCRL3NA.nhysxw0j.dpbs
6. I reboot windows and.. it won't start up.
7. I go into setup menu and it indeed does recognize the internal HDD, but cannot prompt it to boot to windows. Recovery options just displays errors, there are no drivers to read, and going to command prompt goes to x:windows/system32. I tried to go into c: but it absolutely cannot read my local disk.
8. I read that dynamic HDDs won't boot, so I accidentally converted my local HDD to dynamic? I think I haven't touched any HDD options except the old HDD. I unplugged the old one since.
9. I tried to install win7 using my bootable win7 usb, but it won't recognize my internal HDD.
10. So.. I am pretty much stuck. I read in places that plugging and unplugging the internal cables do the trick, but I assume it's more of a screwed up setup.
2. My PC is Acer Aspire x3400 which has been holding up well, Win7 64bit installed.
3. I connected the cables to the old HDD and went into Disk Management, Windows does seem to recognize old HDD but cannot read it.
4. Right clicked and changed 'Disk 0'(the old HDD) to 'Dynamic', did not make difference.
5. While googling, I found a way of changing Dynamic HDDs to Basic.. I don't know why I had to do that..ugh.
Anyways I used a program called HxD to do the exact following..
http://strangelyperfect.tv/6415/how-to-convert-a-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk-in-windows-7/#sthash.uNCRL3NA.nhysxw0j.dpbs
6. I reboot windows and.. it won't start up.
7. I go into setup menu and it indeed does recognize the internal HDD, but cannot prompt it to boot to windows. Recovery options just displays errors, there are no drivers to read, and going to command prompt goes to x:windows/system32. I tried to go into c: but it absolutely cannot read my local disk.
8. I read that dynamic HDDs won't boot, so I accidentally converted my local HDD to dynamic? I think I haven't touched any HDD options except the old HDD. I unplugged the old one since.
9. I tried to install win7 using my bootable win7 usb, but it won't recognize my internal HDD.
10. So.. I am pretty much stuck. I read in places that plugging and unplugging the internal cables do the trick, but I assume it's more of a screwed up setup.
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