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[Solved] HDD holding me at boot screen

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Hello

I took a 3Tb Western Digital HDD and turned it into an internal hard drive. Embarrassingly enough, after completely switching to ubuntu, I learned that GPU won't put up with running on linux. So, as I try to settle back to running Win7 I realize my computer won't move past the ASRock (my motherboard's) boot screen. I took out the HDD, and tried it with just my 64Gb SSD and Windows started to load onto it just fine.

I want, dearly, to keep my HDD but I'm not sure how I could get back into an operable state.


A little extra info: When I was running ubuntu, I partitioned this hard drive into 3 separate partitions of 1Tb each, all of these partitions were in Fat32.

Thanks in advance.

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Fat file system is not supported by windows 7 apart from it will work on a external drive http://wiki.vuze.com/w/FAT32_file_size_limit

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So did I just ruin my hard drive or can I place it back in it's external casing and reformat it?

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You should be able to change the file system doing it in the enclosure is one way and probably the best.

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Thanks a million, man. This is comforting news.

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