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Installing Windows 7 on newly bought drive
Drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue (WD10EALX) 1TB.
Computer is a Gateway FX7026.
I've removed both my old drives, only the new drive is connected. I did a clean, custom install.
I keep getting the message:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. this computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. esnsure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I know it isn't my hardware, because I tried this with the exact same model of HDD before, I installed Windows 7 successfully on that one, but I had to return the last one because it was unstable and had bad sectors etc. and probably would've broken soon or later, so I returned it and got the same drive, but this one can't even install Windows 7.