<html><head></head><body>I'd almost put money on it either being 32-bit winders doesn't like that spiffy new big drive or 64-bit OS and needs UEFI turned on.<br>
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Either way, I'd throw winders in a VM so I could have a "works" snapshot to fall back on.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 3, 2015 3:28:41 PM EDT, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">ok, I have an older DELL XPS desktop, from about 2011. It originally had<br />a 1TB drive in it. I added a 2nd drive to insstall linux on, multiple<br />linux OSes... it was dual-boot windows 7 & linux, worked fine.. THEN<br />finally I was getting HD errors on the original drive, so I replaced it<br />with a nice big Seagate ST3000DM001 . couldn't install windows, didn't<br />recognize the drive.. oh well.. I installed windows 10 preview in a VM,<br />added my programs, kept on truckin. I REALLY want to be able to<br />dual-boot this thing with windows 10, and I even have my MS windows 7<br />product key, so I am legal, I just CAN'T get this thing to install<br />windows into the drive!!! grub works, and I even have ubuntu on the<br />drive & it boots /dev/sda5 ubuntu just fine, but the windows 7 & 10 CDs<br />puke, can't find a drive to install to. Is there an issue with a 3TB<br />drive in this??<br />it is an AMD processor, 64 bit, not inte
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dell shows in delivered feb<br />2011..<br /><br />advice?<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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