Solved Help out the old guy

[Jimintexas]

O.K. I'm the old guy that doesn't know beans about computers, so please help out here. What I'm trying to do is put Windows 7 on one hard drive and another program on a second one. I installed the new HD and it all booted up to the already installed Win 7 just fine. When I looked at the hard drive content, there it was, but I noticed that there was some Wondows (I don't know what version) files on the new HD. So, I wiped it clean. Now I cannot see the new HD in Windows 7. When I go to the boot menu, I see it and when I select it as the primary boot HD. The machine reverts itself back to the original HD as the primary boot HD. My problem now is, how do I load the new software (ububtu) on to the new HD? Do I need to do something to the new HD to make it visible?

 

[HammerHead]

Format?

"So, I wiped it clean."

Did you try formating the "clean" disk?

 

[Jimintexas]

Uhhhh no, I don't think so. I'm not real sure what that even is. Hey, I told you that I was computer illiterate. How is that done?

 

[HammerHead]

Here s A Couple of Tutorials

Here is a couple of tutorials to get started.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/168358-format-hdd-usb.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

 

[Jimintexas]

Thank you very much. I'll give this a whirl.