Trouble Downloading OS on my new computer

[wpeters]

I have a 1 TB seagate Barruacuda harddrive.  OS system will not download. Says the partions are the wrong type. Any idea on how to fix.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have a 1 TB seagate Barruacuda harddrive.  OS system will not download. Says the partions are the wrong type. Any idea on how to fix.

Which operating system and which version? Older operating systems lack support for any new technologies such as SATA. Installing a new drive to one won't work without installing drivers during install.

You said partitionS, is the drive previously used?

[wpeters]

No it is new. It is windows seven. Could it be my Bios?

[FLS]

By downloading do you mean installing?

Is the HD partitioned?

You need to install the OS to a primary partition.

[Blagard]

You could delete the partitions and let windows 7 format the drive in which case it will create the Hidden 100Mb boot partition.
With the disc not partitioned when you load start to load Windows you select the new disc option and then format.

Otherwise as already advised the partition must be a primary partition. If it not then delete whatever it is and start again.

I can recommend downloading Seagates Discwizard and write it to a CD or USB drive and boot from that to manage your disc partitions

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/discwizard/

[Kenne]

You could delete the partitions and let windows 7 format the drive in which case it will create the Hidden 100Mb boot partition.
With the disc not partitioned when you load start to load Windows you select the new disc option and then format.

Otherwise as already advised the partition must be a primary partition. If it not then delete whatever it is and start again.

I can recommend downloading Seagates Discwizard and write it to a CD or USB drive and boot from that to manage your disc partitions

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/discwizard/

so im looking at W7 and a new drive. I should just install the drive and let W7 do the rest?

[Blagard]

so im looking at W7 and a new drive. I should just install the drive and let W7 do the rest?

You can do, but you do have to make the selections once the Win 7 install has started!

e.g. It won't find a drive to install on initially but near the bottom of the install screen there should be an icon for a new drive, so you click that and follow any prompts.

If you have any other drives on the PC it is not so simple! - Or if you have either an old PC or Windows 7 without service pack 1. In those situations you may have to install the motherboards SATA drivers during the windows initial loading.



Edit: This may help has some screenshots to http://www.tweakhound.com/windows7/install7.html

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Win7 installer has a bug that sometimes gives an error to all your partitions claiming they're not compatible. The trick is to remove all other hard drives for the moment of installation if you have more than 1 plugged in.

[Kenne]

If you have any other drives on the PC it is not so simple! - Or if you have either an old PC or Windows 7 without service pack 1. In those situations you may have to install the motherboards SATA drivers during the windows initial loading.

no other drives??

dose that include DVD drives?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

no other drives??

dose that include DVD drives?

You should leave only the hard drive you plan to install to and the DVD if you install from DVD - or USB stick if your installation is from USB.

If you have multiple hard drives installed, sometimes Win7 installer will malfunction and start nagging about all partitions being 'the wrong type'.

[Blagard]

For what it is worth I installed my Windows 7 to a new SATA drive but because I had a couple of other hard drives fitted, I disconnected them to allow Windows 7 to do an install to the only drive on the system. (the other drives were an Windows XP installation on a SATA and an IDE disc for old dos games). I can say that Windows 7 did not like my old data only IDE Hard Drive being connected during installation and it did not even have an OS on it!

With Windows 7 installed and being the master disc and the first hard drive to look for under the BIOS I reconnected all drives then put "EasyBCD" on the Win7 installation which I used to dual boot Windows 7/ Windows XP. My dual boot menu is timed for 5 seconds, so unless I select Windows XP it boots straight into Windows 7