i have my new hdd but it says Help "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media blah2"

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i have this new hdd it can be read but it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" do i have to install new os? or what any help there? do i system restore this? i have windows7 my older hdd is still running but i want to replace this with a new one. any help there :(
 
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Hi Jelsha!
I want to make sure I am reading right. You have an old hard drive that came with the computer originally. It has Windows 7 installed on it currently and is working fine on its own.

You bought a 2nd hard drive to upgrade with and would like Windows 7 to run off that hard drive instead of the old drive?

I hope I am understanding right :)
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I believe you have a priority issue when booting.
Connect the HDD again, go into the bios and select the 1st boot device to be your old disk (which has the OS).
If you cant select them individually, than just disconnect them both, connect the OS HDD into the SATA 0 slot and the second one into any other SATA available ports.

Lemme know
indy
 
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Hi Jelsha!
I want to make sure I am reading right. You have an old hard drive that came with the computer originally. It has Windows 7 installed on it currently and is working fine on its own.

You bought a 2nd hard drive to upgrade with and would like Windows 7 to run off that hard drive instead of the old drive?

I hope I am understanding right :)
 
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yup you get it right sorry for the bad english
 
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no i mean i have 2 hdd's then the one have OS and the newer one say's "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" i only have one sata to connect do i need to get some os and install on my new HDD??
 
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how to copy the win7 in cloning utility?
 
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With only 1 SATA port (I assume this is a laptop then? :) ) that makes things a little bit harder. If you want to keep your files and programs exactly as they are now and just move to the new drive, you will need to use a cloning tool like indy17 mentioned. With only 1 SATA port though, you will also need some sort of external USB to SATA adapter. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002 is one I use and love.

You will need a software package to run the cloning. Something like: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Others can be found here:

http://lifehacker.com/5839753/the-best-disk-cloning-app-for-windows
 
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i'll try this bro ty for the suggestion no i mean one SATA connector sorry for my misdirection in my sentence LOL thanks a lot btw! :)
 
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