A quick thank you to all who replied, much appreciated.

Denis, I did boot from the new WD with the old disconnected . Now I change Bios to boot from the new[WD]
reconnect the old disk reboot & the old disk is the one booting so now under my Computer I...

mngerhold, the new drive is the WD but would not boot from it.

mngerhold, just tried this. rom-usb-WD drive, did not work,went back and checked.
Stubbornly still wants to go back to the older drive.

try*3, You are running way beyond my
Intelligence. What happens if I reconnect the older 232 drive will it not show up identical to the current drive? So I will have two identical drives? Also how...

So am i stuck with this?

Ok, After removing power/data cables on the 232 HD i am now using the new drive however under my Computer the only Hd showing [C] is the one that has been removed. How is this happening?

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Having a problem with prt screen. Have been on this for more then 2 hrs., Have used snipping tool, Paint, googled how to but the only time it will let me paste is with my personal info. Been more...

I right click on F-then boot, shows a macrium folder which has drivers-
then Disk,ethernet,USB,wifi but no where to boot new drive. Disk folder is empty,
Both drives are still identical, nothing...

Denis, I did not see your post before i started. I just finished cloning the C drive using Macrium however I now have a new F drive which is also identical to the C drive. How is this possible? my...

Megahertz, Thank you for your reply. Here is what i have:
Under computer management

1. [C]

2.Disc O ), partition 3

3. System reserved

Now the only one

I have an HP Win 10 Computer & i want to roll the HD over to a Larger HD.
I want to also reformat the larger HD but there is no icon showing on my Computer
for this Drive. Tried...

Ken, I know i'm a newbie but I do not see a posting 12 in this thread. The dvd does show in the bios.

OK, I installed a new sata cable and on the motherboard the original was connected to the red female connector so I have another hp which is similar and on that machine the dvd rom is connected to...

Autoplay is on, device mgr, " hl-dt-st dvd-ram gh40l" States that it is working perfectly.
also I have vlc media player installed & but have never used it in this context. Does not the cd/dvd rom...

Nothing happens when i insert a retail music CD. I should think that Windows should ask to boot from CD rom[boot sequence] but no. Thereare no lights on the dvd player[front] & in my computer when i...

I have an HP, Win 10 Computer & a problem with the D drive that's not functioning.
I can insert a Disc in the Drive & nothing happens except for the waiting circle[Green
revolving] ...