Windows 7 & recognizing disks.
Well, after a year of refusing to touch Windows I have succumbed and tried to install W7 for my neighbour and for my son.
I bought a new hard disc and loaded W7 without a snag. This in itself was a surprise but when connecting the old data-only hard disk to the IDE nothing shows up. I can see it in the discs section of the system but in the computer, nothing.
I have also connected another disc to a SATA port but get the same result.
So why are things not showing up? I've been through all the updates procedures.
My neighbour's computer had Vista but lacking the BOOTMGR. A rescue disc failed to help and I was unable to format the entire disc from another hard disc with Linux Mint(excellent OS!).
Of course, W7 wouldn't load on her disc.
Any help welcomed.