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New SATA Drive (NON RAID), PC asks to select proper boot device

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Coldkilla

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I just got my first sata hdd. I installed it, ran windows xp install. Afterwards I restarted my pc with all my newly installed drivers for my pc components. Now everytime I start my PC it asks me to "Select Proper boot device" and some more info that I cannot remember right now. Anyways, simply pressing ctrl+alt+delete bypasses this and allows me to go to desktop. Simple or not I dont want to do this everytime I turn my pc on.

Boot device starts with hdd then cd rom.. i have no floppy drive.
 
That's in the BIOS phase that it says that? According to everything that Google finds, it seems to indicate that the system is not actually finding a device with a boot partition on it, yet when you reboot it works fine. Part of the issue is that a cold boot does this, but a warm boot doesn't, so something is initializing slower than the rest of the system perhaps.

One thing somebody else found: next time you do a cold boot, go into the BIOS setup and look at the boot priority, and see if the hard drive is listed.

They also seem to find that having any external devices plugged in may cause a problem, for things that are seen as storage devices.

Some resolved the issue by flashing the BIOS, or just resetting the NVRAM.
 
I had a similar problem before, I had more than one hard drive and everytime I started it asked me to select the correct boot drive even though I had HDD selected first. I had to go into some other menu to select which specifically which hard drive to boot. I don't know if that will help or not.
 
Yes usually if you have multiple drives, (removable drives ought to be separate from HDDs) there is a sub-menu in the boot order to select which particular drive you want to boot from. It ought to have defaulted to one or the other of course and simply move to the next if the first one doesn't have a boot partition or boot record.
 
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