Need
Set Up a New Hard Drive on My Windows Computer?
"Hello,
what can I do to set up a new hard disk on my computer to instead an old and
died HD? In fact, I have used this old HD on this Windows 7 desktop computer
for several years and find it recently gets too many bad sectors which
extremely negatively affect the computer performance. Yesterdays, the computer
even shut down and restarted several times in only one hour. Therefore, I have
planed to purchase a new internal hard disk to replace it there. But, I know
not much about the computer hard disk and have no idea about how to set it up
well on this computer. Do you get any clue to help me? Is it possible to set up
this drive well there and also lose no data? Thanks for any help!"
Hello, friends! It is not difficult for
people to set up a new hard drive on a Windows 7 computer without losing data.
You are supposed to act carefully all the time. Go read the step-by-step
tutorial below:
How
to Set Up a New Hard Drive without Losing Old Computer Data?
In order to let your newly purchased hard
disk work well on the Windows 7 computer and also cause no data loss, except
plugging this hard disk and mounting it there, you also have far more steps to
follow:
Step1.
Back up everything Important to another storage device.
In order not to lose anything original, you
are supposed to extract everything important out and save it all on another
storage device at first. Is the "died" old internal hard disk still
recognizable on your computer? If it is readable there, merely prepare another
external drive or flash drive with enough free space and move everything
important there in case that anything crucial would be deleted, lost or missing
due to the latter operations. But, if this old drive cannot be accessed since the disk is not formatted or disk
is in RAW format and asks to format or others, you’d better apply hard disk data recovery software to scan and recover original hard disk data as
much as possible. However, if your old hard disk is not even detected on any
computer, you’d better send it to data recovery companies or agencies to take
all recoverable data back.
Please
Note: No matter what your case is, always recover
desired data to a different storage device in case of data recovery failures.
Step2.
Check hard drive compatibility and computer configurations well.
Have you already purchased a new internal
hard disk for this computer? If so, you’d better first check your computer
configurations well and see whether it is compatible with your PC. For example,
merely check whether the hard disk USB port is compatible with your computer
USB port, whether this new hard disk capacity is larger than the maximum internal
hard drive size, and whether this hard disk has been designed with a compatible
file system type, like NTFS or FAT32, etc. If anyone of these elements is
incompatible with your PC, you’d better contact the sellers and change another
compatible one as soon as possible in case of potential errors. Of course, if
you have not bought a new one yet, go select one according to your computer
configurations carefully.
Step3.
Plug hard disk well and Install computer OS well.
And then, now, you are supposed to connect
this new hard disk to your computer and install the computer OS well there.
Merely connect it to your computer with the computer USB port and install your
Windows 7 OS there again. Of course, if you do need to change another Windows
version there, also remember to download a virus-free one copy from the safe
sites or locations. Also download and install the updates, if it is possible.
Please
Note: If you do have no any experience about
computer OS installation and also have no any knowledge related, always go find
some experts for help in case of any potential OS problems in the future.
Step4.
Partition and format it well there.
Up to now, to use your installed hard disk
well as before, you are also supposed to partition this drive into several ones
as well as formatting these newly created partitions well for near future use.
To partition this mounted HD, you’d better download drive partitioning software
to help you. And then, also format these partitions (except the C partition or
system partition) into a compatible file system type so that you can straightly
use them to hold and manager your computer data well.
Please
Note:
*If you do have find a expert to help you
install the OS well and also ask him/her to partition it for you in case of any
farther issues. After all, he/she knows much more knowledge related than you in
this aspect, right?
*Please do not format the system partition
after partitioning processes.
Step5.
Set this hard disk as the first boot item in BIOS interface.
And then, in order to let your computer
boot properly after changing the only one computer hard disk, you are also
supposed to set the BIOS boot device correspondingly. Merely power on your PC
and click Esc button on your keyboard till the computer BIOS Setup Utility
interface shows on your computer screen. And then, choose Advanced BIOS
Features to highlight Hard Disk Boot Priority and set your newly connected HD
as the first boot item there. And then, press Esc button again to get back and
go reboot your PC.
Please
Note:
* Up to now, you can freely copy the
necessary data back from the backup storage device when your computer boot up
smoothly.
*In the future, also make computer data
backups well all the time to avoid any unexpected data loss issues.
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