The most important part of the following operation is to pick the right drive. The easiest way to find the new drive in the drive listing is to find the drive with the right storage space.
In his case, it was relatively easy as he bought a new 60 Gigabyte Solid State Drive. The drive needs to be initialized, this is done by selecting it in the drive listing, right-clicking afterwards and clicking Initialize Disk from the context menu. It is now important to select the right disk from the menu.
Important because there may be multiple disks that are not initialized. Disks can be unselected from the menu. It is usually sufficient to select the MBR partition style, unless the disk that needs to be initialized is larger than 2 Terabytes or is used on Itanium based computers.
The process takes a few seconds the most, and the status of the disk should change from Not Initialized to Online. The drive space on the other hand is still shown as unallocated. This is because no file system has been selected yet for the drive.
The drive can be formatted by right-clicking on the Unallocated space in Disk Management, and selecting New Simple Volume. There are other options but those are usually for more advanced uses. The operating system will then walk the user through setting up the hard drive so that it can be accessed in Windows. The first step is to select the volume size for the drive, which usually should be the maximum size available unless the drive should be partitioned.
After that a drive letter can be selected for the new hard drive, so that it becomes accessible in Windows 7. In the last step, the file system can be selected. It is NTFS by default and it is usually not required to make any changes here. It may make sense however to change the volume label for better identification of the drive in Windows.
The formatting should not take long and the drive becomes available right after the operation ends. On the Install Windows page, enter your language and other preferences, and then click Next. If the Install Windows page doesn't appear, and you're not asked to press any key, you might need to change some system settings. To learn how to do this, see Start your computer from a Windows 7 installation disc or USB flash drive. On the Please read the license terms page, if you accept the license terms, click I accept the license terms , and then click Next.
On the Where do you want to install Windows? If a dialog box appears saying that Windows might create additional partitions for system files, or that the partition you chose might contain recovery files or other types of files from your computer manufacturer, click OK. Follow the instructions to finish installing Windows 7 , which include naming your computer and setting up an initial user account.
If you're using the upgrade version of Windows 7 on a computer without an operating system installed, you need to leave the product key box empty during setup. To activate Windows 7 , go to the Microsoft Support website. Both the built-in tool or third-party cloning software can achieve the goal. Read on and learn how to do that. I upgraded this to Win 10, during the free upgrade period. I have just bought a new hard drive for my Toshiba Laptop. How do I now install Windows 10 on the new hard drive?
To install Windows 10 onto a new hard drive, you can choose to use Windows 10 built-in tool or reliable third-party software to help you. This article will introduce you the steps of the two methods in turn, and you can choose any of them according to your own needs.
If you want to use Windows 10 built-in tool to help you, you need to create Windows 10 installation media at first and then install Windows 10 on the new hard drive. You can see the specific tutorial in method 1. If you prefer the easier way, you can select a reliable third-party tool to clone the disk containing Windows 10 to a new hard drive.
And you can follow the steps in method 2. You can select any one of the methods based on your needs. The first method is to use the Media Creation Tool provided by Microsoft. It can help you to prepare the installation media and then install Windows 10 on your new hard drive. You can follow the tutorial below.
Before you use the Windows Media Creation Tool to install Windows 10 on the new hard drive, you need to do some preparation work:. Step 2. Then click Next. Step 3. You can set Language, Windows Edition, and Architecture by yourself, or you can accept the recommended options.
Step 4. Choose USB flash drive and click Next.
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