New HDD wont boot?

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

My old HDD is almost done gives me the smart message to tell me it's going to die. So I bought a new one and put it in today and it gives me an error saying to select boot device or put in a cd and press any key, any help? :/

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

Does BIOS see the new drive?

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

saywhut :

Yes

johnnyb105 · Oct 17, 2014

Do you have it set up correct in the bios as the 1st boot??????

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

johnnyb105 :

Yes, boot priority is HDD then Dvd drive.

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

Okay, and are you trying to re-install from the ground up? If so, does the CD see the disk or partitions?

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

saywhut :

Only installing the HD? and I don't have any recovery CD's. :/

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

Well if there is nothing in the new drive, of course it's going to say no boot device found. Is there an OS on the new drive?

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

saywhut :

No, but I thought the Motherboard held the OS? So Ill need to buy windows 7 now, as I bought the OEM version last time

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

Mul9 :

Negative, the HDD is what holds the OS. Your old HDD has the data and OS on it. See if you can use the license key from the OS on your old HDD, if not you will have to buy another copy with license key.

Hope I helped.

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

saywhut :

Mul9 :

Negative, the HDD is what holds the OS. Your old HDD has the data and OS on it. See if you can use the license key from the OS on your old HDD, if not you will have to buy another copy with license key.

Hope I helped.

Old HDD still works but its slow, anyway I can load it up and back up the stuff from it to my new HDD?

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

You can actually "clone" the drive onto your new hard drive, or you can just transfer your DATA to a usb key or external drive, and re-install from scratch.

I would re-install from the ground up with the new drive that way you get that "new" feeling again.

Mul9 · Oct 17, 2014

saywhut :

Old drive is 1TB this one is 500gb, so probably couldn't copy them unless i delete a lot of stuff haha. I'll buy windows 7 soon, £40 on eBay for disc. Ill buy the disc this time.

saywhut · Oct 17, 2014

Fair enough. Glad I could help.

Mul9 · Oct 20, 2014

saywhut :

Ive copied the HDD for my new one and now when I try to boot it, it says BOOTMGR is missing press ctrl, alt delete to restart.

Mul9 · Oct 20, 2014

saywhut :

Also found my Win 7 Disc, still saying boot error message

saywhut · Oct 21, 2014

Did you "clone" the drive?

If you are using the disk, you have to boot to the disk. Generally youre motherboard has a one time boot option, or you have to go into the BIOS to change boot sequence.

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