Windows 10: Boot Device Not Found on Fresh Install on New Hard Drive

I am performing a fresh install for somebody on a new hard drive. Their last hard drive basically died, but I was able to pull the user file out of it. When I went to put the hard drive into their computer, I was getting a boot device not found error. I brought the hard drive back home and was able to boot from the device on my personal pc. Their computer is quite a bit older, so my initial thought is that I installed the wrong bit version, I installed 64x, is that the error you expect to get if you install the wrong version? I don't want to install a whole new version if that is not the prob

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Need help installing a new hard drive

yes, so just unplug the old hard drive and install windows onto the new drive, it being the only drive plugged into the computer.
then after windows is installed and it works, plug the old one back in and it will be recognized. obviously turn the computer off while plugging in/out drives.

you only had to go to computer management if you needed to see the drive in windows, if you want to install a fresh install of windows to the drive and then use both afterward (recommended) then this will do it.

if , by chance, it boots the old windows instead of the new after doing that - then just go into the bios and arrange the drives in your boot priority, putting the new drive first.

 

Hard Drive Not Showing Up In The Boot Order

Hi,

Since I tried to install VMware on one of my PC, the HDD is not showing up in the boot order but I can see it in the SATA device list. If I try to install Ubuntu Server or Linux Mint, the both OS can see the 500 GB drive and I can install the OS on it but when the installation is done, the OS, Linux Mint or Ubuntu Server, depending what is installed, won't boot because the 500 GB HDD is not showing up as a boot device.

Why this happen? I do a Google search but all I get is not what I search for or non somes forums, they suggest to unplug the SATA cable and re-plug it on another SATA port because the SATA port can be dead. I do this but it won't fix the issue, by the way if the SATA port was dead, why I can see the 500 GB drive on the SATA device section of the BIOS? And also I got the HDD may be dead, not possible because he is detected on the Linux Mint setup or Ubuntu Server setup ansd like I saids I can install an OS on it and he is detected in the SATA devices section in the BIOS. As I found nothing reveland on Google, I need help please.

This is possible VMware has scrapped the BIOS or the Hard Drive? I don't know…

Thanks in advance for your help!

Guillaume

 

new hard drive problems...please help

got a new sata hard drive....western digital(just got it cause it was cheap....)....faster than my old drives..so i did a fresh install of windows on it(instead of using the utility to set it up as the new boot device without windows reinstall)...needed to be done anyways.....worked ok for an hour...after installing some new progs...upon boot it says "ntldr is missing press x to reboot...."...............wtf??


p.s....i did not erase all of the boot info on my old boot drive until after the fresh install....and i have the bios setting for "enhanced mode" for the ide settings....instead of combined sata only or auto