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One of the best investments that a computer enthusiast  should do is to obtain a Hard Drive Management tool such as Paragon or Acronis with which so much can be done effortlessly. For instance if one is installing a new hard drive of  what ever type one can use the tool to format make the new drive "active" and this will allow it to boot up OK to install a new OS or get a copy of the OS to start. Partitioning, changing the size of HD's etc. I personally make a boot disk from the management program  and thus it can be used in any computer one choses. Using the boot disk means of course that the operating system is not running so changes are immediately done quickly and safely. John
Drive management