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Cannot install Windows 7 on new drive
I’m trying to install Windows 7 on my backup computer. I initially installed it from the setup but the C drive is too small so I cannot install other programs so I want to install it on a larger hard drive.
I have a larger hard drive that I formatted but I can’t seem to install Windows 7 on that drive. If I remove the C drive where the original one is installed and replace it with the larger drive I can’t boot from the reformatted C drive. I created a recovery disk and can make some progress but it still won’t let me install Windows 7 on the almost empty disk. The setup says it is the secondary not the primary and I can’t seem to force it to be the primary although it is recognized in the setup.
If I put the original disk with Windows 7 back in I can boot up and run the install but I don’t think there is a way to install it on a drive that is not the C drive so that doesn’t help much. The larger drive is then visible and I can open the few small files I put on it as a test so I know the drive is ok. I tried putting the restore files on the larger disk but that doesn’t work.
I have installed Windows before since I built both this computer and my other one from scratch with empty hard disks.