My hard drive is in the process of failing. It keeps telling me that "hard drive failure is imminent" every time I boot up. So I purchased a new hard drive. It's brand new, so it obviously has no operating system on it. I had Windows 8.
So I'm curious as to how I can get Windows 8. I don't have any of them. I tried to create a system image on my old drive, but it always fails due to bad clusters. Step 2 From the given option available on the applications Click on Desktop. Step 3 right-click on the Computer icon and from the context menu that appears click on the Manage option. Step 4 From the Computer Management, Click on Disk Management option and if you have installed a new hard disk, it will automatically be displayed with Initialize Disk box with the checkbox checked on the hard disk that is newly installed and needs to be initialized.
Step 5 Click on the Ok button to leave everything as default and initialize the newly connected hard disk. Once initialized, the hard disk can then be partitioned and formatted according to the requirements. NET 2. View All. Some of you may still have questions about installing a new hard drive to your Desktop or Laptop.
Here we gathered 5 top concerned questions and listed a brief answer to help you. When you first install a new hard drive, if it's not initialized, the computer may not be able to detect it. So your first job is to open Disk Management, locate and right-click on the new hard drive, select to initialize it. Then you can create partitions on it by right-clicking on the unallocated space and select to create new simple volumes. After this, you can format the new hard drive by right-clicking to format the created partitions.
After you install a new hard drive, you may initialize it first in using Disk Management or partition manager software like EaseUS Partition Master recommended here. Gemma is member of EaseUS team and has been committed to creating valuable content in fields about file recovery, partition management, and data backup etc for many years. She loves to help users solve various types of computer related issues.
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I have gotten quite a bit of feedback from users who have tested these installs out, see here for details:. Thank you in advanced for your help! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
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