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Hi Dave 76,Thanks for your advise,I have a WD500gb external hardrive that only has a usb port, I wonder if i can buy an adapter to covert it to a esata cable, thanks again, and i tipped the scales....patch41
Thanks patch,
I have never heard of an adapter to go from USB to eSATA.
You can buy external HDD enclosures with eSATA cables.
You might be able to pry the HDD from the WD external, but I would just buy a new HDD for it.
Hi Brink,
Sorry for the 'novice' question but just to be clear, when installing Win 7 on my fresh / new HDD#2, I don't need to disconnect HDD #1 (the one with an existing with Vista OS on it)? I already have 2 HDDs and intend to replace the existing HDD #2 with the new bigger faster HDD and install Win 7 on that.
Cheers
You can do either; it's probably easiest if you leave the Vista drive installed while you install Windows 7, so that you will be offered a choice of Operating Systems to boot from.
Hi Brink,
Like everyone else i want to thank you for all your help and great tutorials. Here is my problem: I did a Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and Vista (windows 7 was already instaled) like i stated the dual install went fine but when i login the windows vista section it loads up, but no internet, drivers and things like that! What can i do?
Hello Bobbelt, and welcome to Seven Forums. Thank you.
It sounds like you will need to download your Vista drivers for all of your devices while in Windows 7, then copy them over into your Vista drive, then boot into Vista and install them.
After i posted my question it hit me to go to dell and get all the drivers! Sure enough that was the problem! It took about 3hrs to download all drivers, install them, install the software i wanted on the new partition, and get all 103 latest updates but so far it was well worth it! thank you