So, I'm working on building a PC and i'm trying to salvage as many parts as I can from things I have around the house (I'm using a kitchen sink as a heatsink. Kidding, but you wish I would)
So, a main part i'm salvaging is a 250GB SATA 3GB/s HDD that I took out of a USB 2.0 external HDD enclosure I got off of craigslist. I know that it's not very much storage, and it's not SATA III, but it'll save me some money until I can buy a brand new HDD from Newegg. So, my problem is, I was trying to put together my system the other day, I borrowed my friend's processor (I haven't bought mine yet) and attempted to install windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit onto the harddrive, but when I got to the screen to pick a harddrive to install it to, the said harddrive won't show up on the list... So, I put it into my friend's PC that's working, and formatted it. It only has an option to format it as NTFS though, is this a problem? After formatting, it still wouldn't show up so I could install windows to it. Can anyone get me some help with this?
Also, off the topic of HDDs, my specs for my computer will be (when I finish building):
FX-4100 AM3+ Processor
Asrock 970 Extreme3 with UEFI BIOS
8Gb G-skill Ares 1866MHz RAM
Gigabyte Nvida GT 630 with 2GB of DDR3
620W 80+ Certified PSU (forgot the brand)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
NZXT Gamma case
Any comments on how this system might work for playing minecraft? And maybe BF3? Thanks