This has become all consuming in my life. I can't do homework and can't seem to fix this problem. Here is the deal: I just built a new computer.Asus Maximus Formula 2 mb. Intel Core 2 Duo 45nm 6 mb l2 proc. Geforce Verto VC. Kingston 800 ddr2 2g ram I added my older hard drive (actually new but only used for 2 months) and old dvdrw both IDE. they are on one IDE cable master(hd) slave (dvdrw).I get error message reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I have tried different jumper configs, clearing c-mos. My hard drive does work I just tested on another computer, but not on this new set up. Any ideas. Do I change something in the bios? Please help I need this computer for school. Even if I get a new Dvdrw that is Sata. The hard drive isn't booting to windows. If I jumper the cd as master it works(but then HD doesn't)So : I went out and bought a SATA DVDRW thinking that the hard drive could use the ide alone and maybe there wouldn't be any problems. The bios sees the sata and it sees the hard drive(ide) but still won't boot to windows. I still get pick boot device error. I then plugged an external SATA HD in and the windows os cd did try to work with the external hd. Sadly it can't work w/ it. It did start up and get all the way to password then locked. I put the external on another computer and loaded mb drivers and new sata dvdrw drivers onto the external. I then tried to install windows os setup/repair. I found that that is impossible to do w/ out much work and know how. I know this is a huge post. Has someone had this problem and fixed it. Thanks so much for any information or fixes.
it won´t work unless you also change the HDD from master to slave too possibly the boot priority is defaulting to CD, enter the BIOS and set the first boot device to HDD & not CD
Thank u for responding. The hd was master -dvdslave. Boot priority was dvd then hd. I went out and bought a Sata DVD and tried that. So now I have an ide hd and a sata dvd. I plugged in an external hd and the xp os disc worked and started to load. The xp os disc does not detect my internal hd though.
clearing the CMOS resets all BIOS settings to their default settings including the time and date, so you'll need to set the date and time what is the HDD size? is the HDD detected in BIOS?
Hello, the hd is 75 gigs. I do have to change the date again. I plugged in my sata-ide external hd and the windows os disc started to run on it. I quickly turned off the external and it continued to run but on the internal hd. It sadly did not give me the repair option( I read that if the os disc does not give repair option the reason is that you could have a very corrupt hd). I decided to kill the install(I don't want to write over my files). I did the same thing again running os disc off of external and then turning off external so it goes to internal. I went to recovery console and checked boot confg. I have never done this before so I scanned installations(1 of course) asked it to run chkdsk and it said system sound and in good shape so it didn't run. The hardrive is in ok shape. Getting the os disc to run is progress but I can't repair the darn thing. The motherboard cd works but only to make a floppy boot disc(i have no floppy drive)
