Okay firstly I apologise if this is a little long winded but here goes:
I received my machine yesterday, after connecting everything and switching it on I had the motherboard screen boot up and then as it went onto boot windows up it came up with a message saying hard drive not detected - overclocking failed - send your machine back etc.. Luckily I've already read this problem elsewhere on this forum so decided to re-install windows, as i'd never installed an OS before I stuck to the steps in the pcspecialist guide (i deleted drivers, partitions) and installed windows from new. Everything is now fine except for a couple of things
1) everytime i boot up it asks me which OS i'd like to boot up.. windows 7 or.... windows 7. Have i done something wrong with the installation? i've only ever tried booting up the first selection of windows and that seems to be fine, but i'm concerned my cpu is remembering two versions of windows and is taking up more space and therefore slowing it down (21GB has been used so far on my hard drive before i've made any software/driver updates) is this about right? i'm not sure how much an OS usually takes up?
2) I have two hard drives, I have one 2TB and one 1TB (windows is installed on the 2TB) However I can't seem to find the 1TB drive to actually use. At first I thought maybe the drive had become lose perhaps during transit, so upon inspection everything seemed to be okay. I know the computer recognises it as when i go into properties on my C drive it's listed under hardware and as i said earlier, i had the option to install windows to it, also when going into it from the hardware menu, it displays it as working correctly. On my old vista machine it was displayed in my computer next to my C drive. So obviously any help and advice with this would be brilliant.. Thanks
I received my machine yesterday, after connecting everything and switching it on I had the motherboard screen boot up and then as it went onto boot windows up it came up with a message saying hard drive not detected - overclocking failed - send your machine back etc.. Luckily I've already read this problem elsewhere on this forum so decided to re-install windows, as i'd never installed an OS before I stuck to the steps in the pcspecialist guide (i deleted drivers, partitions) and installed windows from new. Everything is now fine except for a couple of things
1) everytime i boot up it asks me which OS i'd like to boot up.. windows 7 or.... windows 7. Have i done something wrong with the installation? i've only ever tried booting up the first selection of windows and that seems to be fine, but i'm concerned my cpu is remembering two versions of windows and is taking up more space and therefore slowing it down (21GB has been used so far on my hard drive before i've made any software/driver updates) is this about right? i'm not sure how much an OS usually takes up?
2) I have two hard drives, I have one 2TB and one 1TB (windows is installed on the 2TB) However I can't seem to find the 1TB drive to actually use. At first I thought maybe the drive had become lose perhaps during transit, so upon inspection everything seemed to be okay. I know the computer recognises it as when i go into properties on my C drive it's listed under hardware and as i said earlier, i had the option to install windows to it, also when going into it from the hardware menu, it displays it as working correctly. On my old vista machine it was displayed in my computer next to my C drive. So obviously any help and advice with this would be brilliant.. Thanks
and sorry for sounding like a real noob but... disk management? do you mean one of the driver discs or an option on the pc?