I just bought a new hard drive because my current one was making a crunching noise and always at 100% disk usage, so I know the arms on the platter are going out.
I downloaded Acronis True Image WD Edition and copied my hard drive to the new one, but forgot to format the new one first. The program made the new drive bootable, and now if I have both plugged in, my pc starts messing up and flashing and not responding to keyboard / mouse once the screen saver comes up (so I can't log in) and if I boot from just the new drive, it just sits with a spinning loading icon for as long as I leave it on.
TL;DR I need to format my new drive so I can properly set it up but I don't have a windows cd because I upgraded from windows 8 for free and I don't have that installation cd anymore either. And lord knows you can't plug in a new drive while your pc is on. What do I do?
I downloaded Acronis True Image WD Edition and copied my hard drive to the new one, but forgot to format the new one first. The program made the new drive bootable, and now if I have both plugged in, my pc starts messing up and flashing and not responding to keyboard / mouse once the screen saver comes up (so I can't log in) and if I boot from just the new drive, it just sits with a spinning loading icon for as long as I leave it on.
TL;DR I need to format my new drive so I can properly set it up but I don't have a windows cd because I upgraded from windows 8 for free and I don't have that installation cd anymore either. And lord knows you can't plug in a new drive while your pc is on. What do I do?
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