Help Installing Fresh Win 7 on different hardrive partition (primary)

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  1. Posts : 93
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       #11

    Is this the right software for the diagnostics? http://support.wd.com/product/downlo...&sid=3&lang=en

    Also before I install this are you sure its western digital, I believe I had a total of four 'disk' , two partitions and two external HD connected when I copied the information from the system information..

    *Edit its cool, both of the 500gb ones are from wdc so its fine but I'm not sure about the make numbers or what not, i tried search for Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA and nothing on site, not sure?
    Last edited by TJGOA; 02 Jan 2014 at 14:38.
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  2. Posts : 93
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       #12

    Okay just finished the quick test and it failed to complete?? Here is screen shot? What on Earth does this mean in english?

    Help Installing Fresh Win 7 on different hardrive partition (primary)-y.jpg

    Not sure where to find out about this error message, any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to find the product on the western digital site to into conversations but by searching Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA nothing pops up?
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  3. Posts : 11,408
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       #13

    You can do the long test, this may take hours.
    but the base is the HDD needs to be replaced.
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  4. Posts : 93
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       #14

    I believe I have two Hard Drives in the Desktop so if that were the case couldn't I just install windows 7 on the other one that is formated opposed to the damaged one which needs to be replaced?[or could it maybe be just one Hard Drive (HDD) but split in two partitions? - How could I find this out?)] I will run the test again, both but this time not in safe mode to see if that might make a difference.
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  5. Posts : 11,408
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       #15

    disks

    Description Disk drive
    Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
    Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA SCSI Disk Device
    Bytes/Sector 512
    Media Loaded Yes
    Media Type Fixed hard disk
    Partitions 1
    SCSI Bus 0
    SCSI Logical Unit 0
    SCSI Port 2
    SCSI Target ID 0
    Sectors/Track 63
    Size 465.76 GB (500,105,249,280 bytes)
    Total Cylinders 60,801
    Total Sectors 976,768,065
    Total Tracks 15,504,255
    Tracks/Cylinder 255
    Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
    Partition Size 465.75 GB (500,096,991,744 bytes)
    Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

    Description Disk drive
    Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
    Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA SCSI Disk Device
    Bytes/Sector 512
    Media Loaded Yes
    Media Type Fixed hard disk
    Partitions 1
    SCSI Bus 0
    SCSI Logical Unit 0
    SCSI Port 3
    SCSI Target ID 0
    Sectors/Track 63
    Size 465.76 GB (500,105,249,280 bytes)
    Total Cylinders 60,801
    Total Sectors 976,768,065
    Total Tracks 15,504,255
    Tracks/Cylinder 255
    Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
    Partition Size 465.76 GB (500,105,217,024 bytes)
    Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
    You have two HDD, you can reinstall to Disk 0.
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  6. Posts : 93
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    Thread Starter
       #16

    Is Disk 0 the current primary partition or is it the system partition? If you mean primary partition I tried and it wouldn't let me, I will try again and get the exact message they give.
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  7. Posts : 93
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       #17

    Well about to call it a night for now, been for 27 hours straight trying to fix this By all means keep posting your advice if you can, I look forward to reading them in the morning, thanks.
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  8. Posts : 11,408
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       #18

    TJGOA said:
    Thanks for the welcome! I am hesitant to try to re-install on the system partition be it after format or not because I think maybe the drive the partition is on might be damaged or worn down or what not. I'm hoping the other partition on the other drive will run faster. I also read somewhere the system partition should be smaller (mine is 500gb), is that a good idea. In any case I can always create a new partition on the hopefully soon to be converted primary partition to system . If all comes to fail I will reconsider formating the system partition. Here is the Image File of Disk Management. I would appreciate any advice.
    Attachment 299967
    Disk0 = C: partition.
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  9. Posts : 93
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    Thread Starter
       #19

    theog said:
    disks

    Description Disk drive
    Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
    Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA SCSI Disk Device
    Bytes/Sector 512
    Media Loaded Yes
    Media Type Fixed hard disk
    Partitions 1
    SCSI Bus 0
    SCSI Logical Unit 0
    SCSI Port 2
    SCSI Target ID 0
    Sectors/Track 63
    Size 465.76 GB (500,105,249,280 bytes)
    Total Cylinders 60,801
    Total Sectors 976,768,065
    Total Tracks 15,504,255
    Tracks/Cylinder 255
    Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
    Partition Size 465.75 GB (500,096,991,744 bytes)
    Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

    Description Disk drive
    Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
    Model WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA SCSI Disk Device
    Bytes/Sector 512
    Media Loaded Yes
    Media Type Fixed hard disk
    Partitions 1
    SCSI Bus 0
    SCSI Logical Unit 0
    SCSI Port 3
    SCSI Target ID 0
    Sectors/Track 63
    Size 465.76 GB (500,105,249,280 bytes)
    Total Cylinders 60,801
    Total Sectors 976,768,065
    Total Tracks 15,504,255
    Tracks/Cylinder 255
    Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
    Partition Size 465.76 GB (500,105,217,024 bytes)
    Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
    You have two HDD, you can reinstall to Disk 0.

    After reading my posts how would you go about reinstalling to Disk 0? I installed a few days ago, just overwrote old windows 7 that wouldn't load but its unusably slow?
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  10. Posts : 11,408
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       #20

    To clean install:
    1) Clean the HD Drive, using Step one in this tutorial:
    SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
    than
    2a) clean install with the OEM manufacturer's Recovery Disk.
    2b) Clean Install Windows 7

    2c) UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with
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