It is really up to you and how much space you think you are going to need. I believe your WD drive had some bad blocks so it has to be repaired first before installing. If you want we can try the Seagate drive to install Windows and get it up and running. Then if you decided to buy a new drive it can be cloned over to the new drive easily. Let me know.
Dell XPS 420 will not boot
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Best Answer phillpower2 , 15 January 2018 - 12:41 PM
ERROR IN THE PREVIOUS POSTPhill sorry about this The Hard drives are not as described above they are in fact.Drive 1: a Seagate Barracuda 320 GB 7200rpmDrive 2: a Western Digital Caviar SE 16... Go to the full post »
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:42 PM
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No problems , lets see what happens with the Seagate, its currently SATA-0
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:43 PM
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Ok sounds good. Please disconnect the other drive. Boot with the Windows 10 USB and let me know when you are at the Install to disk screen.
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:48 PM
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Ok,
Done, but not at install to disk screen: have this
Done, but not at install to disk screen: have this
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:54 PM
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We need to select only your USB drive to boot to. when your computer starts hit F12 key to bring up boot menu and select the USB drive to boot to
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:56 PM
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I can do that from here via f2, your talking about changing the boot order, yes?
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 12:59 PM
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Provide a new screenshot of the following as well as the boot menu option. I believe your Sata ports may not be enabled.
http://www.geekstogo...ot-boot/page-11
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:01 PM
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ok will do
might need help
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:03 PM
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Once at that screen go thru each of the SATA ports 0-4 and only enable SATA 0. That is the SATA port you connected the Seagate drive to, correct?
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:04 PM
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Boot sequence
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:05 PM
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perform the last steps I sent and then check this menu again and see if your drive shows under SATA 0.
Edited by dmccoy, 22 January 2018 - 01:05 PM.
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:08 PM
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OK hang with me,
I was just going back to the screen you wanted and the PC has gone to the windows setup screen,
What do you want to do?
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:12 PM
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Sorry foe the interruption, a visitor has arrive unexpectedly, I may be a short while
sincere apologies
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Posted 22 January 2018 - 01:12 PM
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Yes, exit setup and Please go back to the bios for now and perform those steps first
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