Should I reformat hdd before I reinstall whindows?
When I tried to reinstall its saying it may be another copy of windows on this hdd.

Can you explain this part.
I’m not fully understanding

Ok but this time should I unplug the other HHD?

Also take note this
In order for me to get bios to recognize the boot disk I have to hit ESc on startup and select cdrom.
If I just leave the disc in the cdrom and try to do a regular startup it...

I’m running into another problem now. Im getting a message once windows boot up.

“It looks like you started a upgrade and booted from installation media. If you want to Contiune with the upgrade,...

sorry for the long delay, but im still having problems with this. i can post screen shots of my disk management, is it anyway i can fix this without having to reinstall?

Did a re install with boot disk, not when the computers boots, its asking for the boot disk. I tried changing the startup order in the Bios having the HDD with windows installed on it as the First,...