System Recovery Option - Install hard disk drivers
I had Windows Vista (Home Premium) running fine on my first hard drive. I added a second, empty drive and installed Windows 7 Ultimate onto the second drive with the dual boot option. Everything worked great. I could boot to Vista on drive 1 or boot to Windows 7 on drive 2. No problems. Then later drive 1 died. Totally dead. "Operating System not found." SpinRite from grc.com could not even detect the drive, let alone fix it. I removed the dead drive 1 and put the Windows 7 drive in the drive 1 bay (HP laptop). But the Windows 7 disk won't boot. That makes sense, because with dual boot, the boot information is on the first drive and that drive is dead, gone. The Win7 drive is not bootable.
-- I booted from the Windows 7 Ultimate DVD and chose Repair your computer, bringing up the System Recovery Options. I clicked Use recovery tools... and clicked Next. Then I chose Startup Repair, but that was unsuccessful several times.
-- So next I went to System Recovery Options, clicked Use recovery tools again.
No OS is listed in the pane. That makes sense, because the drive isn't bootable.
-- The screen says: "If your operating system isn't listed, click Load Drivers and then install drivers for your hard disk." Great! Except I don't know where to get the needed drivers!
Please help me find out where to get the drivers. Once I know that, I can put the file(s) on a USB drive and install them from the Load Drivers button. It is looking for a Setup Information file (.inf)
My drive is a Seagate Momentus 2.5 internal 500GB drive
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I've been to the Seagate site and some drivers sites, but I don't know what to download to make the drive bootable. Help please.
-- IMPORTANT: This is not a Boot Order problem. PC is set to boot from DVD drive, then from hard drive, then from USB drive. But the hard drive is not bootable, so, of course, it does not boot from the hard drive. The message appears: "Operating System not found"
