PC not recognizing hard drive

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#1 Ingenemployee
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It shows up in BIOS but wont boot.

The hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 from an older HP desktop

The motherboard is an MSI 970A-G46

Help would be appreciated.

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#2 C_Rule
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Are you trying to boot from it or use it as an additional data drive? If the latter; go into disk management and assign it a drive letter.
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#3 Ingenemployee
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Boot from it. It will be the main hard drive.

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#4 C_Rule
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You'll probably have to re-install the operating system.
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#5 Ingenemployee
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You'll probably have to re-install the operating system. C_Rule

How?

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#6 C_Rule
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[QUOTE="C_Rule"]You'll probably have to re-install the operating system. Ingenemployee

How?

Do you have a copy of Windows? You just install it like you'd usually install an operating system.
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#7 Ingenemployee
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[QUOTE="Ingenemployee"]

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]You'll probably have to re-install the operating system. C_Rule

How?

Do you have a copy of Windows? You just install it like you'd usually install an operating system.

Wouldnt the PC have to recognize the hard drive inorder to install a OP to it?

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#8 C_Rule
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[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="Ingenemployee"]

How?

Ingenemployee

Do you have a copy of Windows? You just install it like you'd usually install an operating system.

Wouldnt the PC have to recognize the hard drive inorder to install a OP to it?

You said it's recognised in the BIOS, you should be able to install an operating system to it.
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#9 Ingenemployee
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[QUOTE="Ingenemployee"]

[QUOTE="C_Rule"] Do you have a copy of Windows? You just install it like you'd usually install an operating system. C_Rule

Wouldnt the PC have to recognize the hard drive inorder to install a OP to it?

You said it's recognised in the BIOS, you should be able to install an operating system to it.

Will give it a shot.

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#10 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="Ingenemployee"]

How?

Ingenemployee

Do you have a copy of Windows? You just install it like you'd usually install an operating system.

Wouldnt the PC have to recognize the hard drive inorder to install a OP to it?

If it shows in BIOS means it recognized the HDD for OS Install.
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