I have an Acer Aspire E500 computer (not mine but I'm working on it for a friend) with 2 sata hard drives. The 250 Gb drive had a virus filled XP installation on it. The other HDD was a 500 GB drive. I wanted to install a fresh copy of XP Media on the 500GB drive using my Acer E500 Recovery CDs which puts the OS on the drive at factory state. I unplugged the 250 GB drive and ran the NortonGhost recovery from the Acer CD. It installed WindowsXP but it had errors after I started the OS and half the programs (IE...) did not work. So I reinstalled everything from the Acer CDs again and this time it told me that everything installed successfully.
My new problem is that I can't get it boot from the HDD. I always get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".
No matter what, I changed everything I thought could affect it in the BIOS but it did not seem to help. I've never really installed an OS on a computer using SATA drives before. Please help.
My current BIOS settings> Standard CMOS Features <Primary IDE Master - DVDRW16
Primary IDE Slave - DVD reader
Secondary IDE Master - Not Detected
Secondary IDE Slave - Not Detected
Third IDE Master - HDD
Third IDE Slave - Not Detected
Fourth IDE Master - Not Detected
Fourth IDE Slave - Not Detected
> Advanced BIOS Features <First Boot device - HDD:3M-WDC WD5000A
Second Boot device - DVDRW16
Boot other device - Enabled
