New HDD will not appear in boot order!

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KS_computerguy89

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I have a brand new 500G HDD I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate on. I am installing Windows from a bootable USB flash drive. The issue I am having is that; while the new HDD is detected in the main menu of the BIOS (MOBO: M4A79XTD EVO REX X.0X) and CAN be selected as a Hard Disk in Hard Disk Management I cannot select it as the secondary boot device under BOOT ORDER in the BIOS.

Basically the only way I can get either the new HDD or my Bootable Flash Drive to appear in the Boot Device Priority menu is if one or the other is set as the 1st Hard Disk Drive. Whichever is set to the 2nd Hard Disk Drive will stop appearing as an option in the Boot Device Priority Menu.

I can set just the bootable USB drive as the primary drive and primary boot device and start the Windows installation, my 500G HDD appears as an available drive volume in the Windows Installation, but after the first reboot during the windows installation, it starts the installation process over (presumably because the 500G HDD is not selected as an available Boot Device in the BIOS)

I am really at a loss here, I never had this problem with my old HDD.

Solved it? still not sure how. I rebooted it a couple of times with different boot configurations and it just finished the windows installation process.
 
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Dirty ol Dog
It gets a bit confusing with the advent of bootable thumb drives and multi drive systems. If I am understanding you correctly you wanted to use the new 500G drive as the boot drive. If so then just set it as 1st boot device. The thumb drive is just booting once to start the install. It's no different than a cd or even floppy drives of the past. Just boot from it once using F8 like you would have done with a cd dvd . When the install does the boot it will boot to the 500 automatically, I think your biggest issue was at that point (first boot) it kept trying to boot to the USB. I can't say it's never happened to me...cause it has...lol
Good Luck
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Dirty ol Dog

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It gets a bit confusing with the advent of bootable thumb drives and multi drive systems. If I am understanding you correctly you wanted to use the new 500G drive as the boot drive. If so then just set it as 1st boot device. The thumb drive is just booting once to start the install. It's no different than a cd or even floppy drives of the past. Just boot from it once using F8 like you would have done with a cd dvd . When the install does the boot it will boot to the 500 automatically, I think your biggest issue was at that point (first boot) it kept trying to boot to the USB. I can't say it's never happened to me...cause it has...lol
Good Luck
 
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