Re: Need help with HDD issue on Dell Inspirion 5160

if he's on a laptop, how can he connect 2 drives at once?

S.Lewis wrote:

So again, you have 2 drives here old and new, and both are somehow connected to the system?

BIOS sees the new drive. The diags see the new drive. At this point, you should be able to boot to the Windows CD and begin an install.

I'd sit the old drive aside disconnected and work only with the new disk. You can reconnect the old drive once your Windows install is done.

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