Reboot or select proper boot device

[bac0926]

About a month ago I took my computer to a “mom & pop” computer store (Which has since gone out of business) because it wouldn’t boot. They replaced the IDE cable and memory card. In addition they did something so that when you boot it after it finishes POST it displays message saying press f2 to setup Bios or f12 to boot from network
Then it checks A drive for a floppy then it would check CD-ROM (Actually a DVD drive) For the window’s CD. If it found it it would display a menu giving you the option of booting from CD-ROM or hard drive. Otherwise it would boot from hard drive
My C drive just got fried. So I removed the old C drive and replaced it with one I had as a backup. I partitioned the new drive and formatted it (When I did this I unplugged D drive as a guard against messing up my backups.)
So I reinstalled Windows 98SE (every thing went fine) then plugged D drive back and rebooted to restore from a backup I had done the night before and stored on my D drive. When it got past the first screen where it would normally ask if it should boot from hard drive or CD (with windows CD in) it came up with the message
“Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device”
I can boot from either IDE connector connected to C drive.
I also get the same message if I try and boot just with C and no Windows CD in the CD-ROM drive
 I can go in under DOS and look and D drive when booting from Floppy
But I can’t get system to boot with C & D drive.
How do I fix it so it will recognize the new C drive and the existing D drive?
Or get rid of this feature all together

[contrex]

is the new C drive jumpered properly? Were you using master/slave or cable select before?

Is this a laptop?

[bac0926]

I originally set them as Cable Select when I got the machie back they had been changed to master/slave I set the new drive to master as the failed drive had been. when that didn't work I changed them back to cable select. that didn't work so I changed them back. It not a laptop. it a "tower"

[patio]

Does D: contain an operating system as well ? ?

[bac0926]

NO. its a 80gig maxtor diamondmax 10. the only thing on it is bascly my backups

[patio]

May not be it but i would try a brand new IDE cable....and use master/slave settings instead of cable select.

[bac0926]

did same result FYI  I went into BIOS and notice that under boot>hard drives D is marked disabled is that normal?

[patio]

Which BIOS is this ? ?
It should show the physical disk but not as D:

[contrex]

NO. its a 80gig maxtor diamondmax 10. the only thing on it is bascly my backups

It hasn't been making any funny clicking sounds lately, has it?

[bac0926]

 :)Found problem when system crashed due to C drive failure it changed Bios so D was disabbled. I changed it back to what it should restarted no problem

[patio]

A system crash or a hard drive failure should not make a change in the BIOS....

The BIOS does not normally report drives as C or D.

Somehow i don't think we're getting all the correct info.

[bac0926]

 :)ok here is what I have in BIOS
It's an Intel for a Celeron 2.0 g
"BIOS SETUP UTILITY"
ITEM                  STATUS
SILENT BOOT      DISABLED
INTEL RAPID
BIOS BOOT          DISABLED
SCAN USER
FLASH AREA         ENABLESED
BOOT FROM
NETWORK             DISABLED
USB BOOT             DISABLED
 THE FOLLOWING ARE MENU'S

BOOT PRTY             
FLOPY
HARD DRIVE
DVD DRIVE
 
HARD DRIVES
1ST DRIVE     (PM WDC-200BB-OOAUA1) 
2ND DRIVE     (SM =MAXTOR 6Y080P01)


ATAPI CD-ROM
1ST DRIVE    SM DVDRW-IDE16X)
2ND DEIVE   SS DVDRW-IDE1008)

I found 2nd hard dirve as disabled enabled it I believe I set boot prty from flpy -> HARDRIVE -> CD-ROM

REMOVEABLE DEVICES
FLOPPY

[bac0926]

 :)That was it. I changed boot prty to floppy->CD-ROM -> hard drive and removed the WIN98SE CD-ROM and it booted with no problems (showing the menu asking whether to boot from CD or hard drive

[patio]

The Win98SE CD should have booted if CDRom was first in the boot priority...unless it's an "ahem" version.

[contrex]

The Win98SE CD should have booted if CDRom was first in the boot priority...unless it's an "ahem" version.

What difference does that make?