"reboot and select proper boot device" ?

[Reven]

Hi

My pc is giving the message "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key".

I had a perfectly running instal of windows 7 64bit. I recently purchased a seagate barracuda xt 2tb. Because I didn't have enough room in my case, I planed on copying some data ( just music, my os wasn't onthere) off of my old hdd to the new hdd.

I opened my pc, plugged in the new hdd and now I get that message. I went through the bios and I am supposed to boot first with my hdds and the boot priority begins with ny sad that has windows 7 on it.

When this didn't work I reorganized my Satan edges and made sure the boot drive was sat 1 bur it made no difference.

Now even when I disconnect the new hdd I have this problem.

My motherboard is an asus p5q deluxe (intel p45 chipsets)

Windows 7 DVD doesnt see the OS. I popped it in to do a repair and it didnt see the OS on my drives.

What should I do?

 

[Reven]

Ok, I tried unplugging every singe hdd except for my ssd with windows 7. Same problem.
To explain exactly what happens at boot up:

I get a screen with the asus logo and intel logo at the corner. Then it flashes and I go to a black screen where it says my marvel controller is initializing. It quickly writes " no hard disk present" and then goes back to the asus logo area. It tries again and then gives me the select boot device area.

If I also connect a sata based hdd then it still says there is no hard disk. However, then something strange happened. Windows started loading, applied a few updates and then restarted. I was then able to get to windows where it again asked me to restart.

I am now able to use windows.

After slowly reconnecting my hard drives I also noticed this: when I connected my IDE drive the marvel controller saw it. Before when the marvel controller was initializing it said no hdd present. With the IDE drive it sees a hdd. Why is that happening?

When I ( finally ) attached my new 2tb drive there were no problems.

Can anyone explain to me what exactly has happened? I dont understand why all of this happened. Why didn't it work in th first place? Why wasn't windows loading by itself? It wasnt loading when all drives were present or when just my OS drive was. It needed my extra sata HDD to load but that HDD ONLY had music files. Even iTunes was installed on the OS drive, only the music itself was on this HDD. Why would it have an effect on my OS?

Is my system close to some huge crash? A while back Windows 7 had crashed on me and I had to do a re-install. Is this a fluke or is something creeping up on my computer?

 

[Swampster]

You have a different controller for each different type of drive. Therefore, you might have a Floppy Controller, an EIDE controller, a SATA controller, and possibly even a SSD controller.

In your CMOS settings, you need to specify which controller to boot from and which device on that controller. This will vary from BIOS publisher to BIOS publisher, so you will just have to play with the settings to get it right.

 

[Reven]

How do I get to my CMOS? I know you said it differs according to BIOS make but what is it generally? Google searches seem to make the BIOS and CMOS very similar and that when I hit 'delete' I go to the CMOS settings as well. My BIOS never mentions CMOS directly. Looking deeply I found some mentions of a marvel controller, but thats it. Most settings had to do with it and the LAN settings...

Also, the PC went down again. I had just finished putting the case together and now it says " BOOTMGR is missing. Pres Ctrl Alt Del to restart".

Arr.

EDIT: I just realized it may have to do with 'active partions'. When I was in Windows 7 the OS didnt recognize my disk. I had delt with the problem before so I just went to Computer Management and gave it a drive letter. I made it a simple volume. However, I noticed it wasnt a 'active partion'. All my other disks were an active partion so I made it one too. Could that be something?

EDIT 2: I unplugged every drive except for my OS drive, and then slowly re-attached drives with my new Seagate drive last. Now the BOOT MGR bug is gone. In its place is the original ' Select Propper Boot Device' line...