Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device

wolfie138 · 18 Oct 2015 at 09:55

Hi guys,
not sure what the issue is here, BIOS or hardware, so please feel free to move as appropriate.

i've built my new puter, and part of that involved moving an HDD from my current machine, which had an SSD as the main C and another 500gb drive for files. i put the current machine bak together and booted to make sure it was ok, and to pull off the stuff in My Documents etc, and when i fire up i'm just getting the "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device" message. i've checked connections and cables, all were fine, i checked the BIOS, the drive is listed ok. i managed to stick in the Win 7 disc, and the Repai options didn't solve anything, butin doing so there was a "load drivers" bit, and when i clicked that i managed to get some My Computer info; the C drive is still there, and everything is listed on it ok, but there's also an X drive called Boot, about 30mb if i recall.

any ideas how i fix this?

TIA

regi · 18 Oct 2015 at 14:44

Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS?

CEUOTC · 18 Oct 2015 at 15:36

Sounds like you have fitted the boot drive to the wrong sata port. As stated above check bios boot order.

wolfie138 · 18 Oct 2015 at 17:29

i've been through the BIOS, the disk's listed and it's the primary. i haven't changed the SATA cable, it was in port 4 for some reason ~ is it worth swapping it around?
is that thing showing an X: drive as Boot normal?

biuro74 · 18 Oct 2015 at 18:18

Sometimes if you install Windows having other drives attached, it puts some files onto it (booting files). It might be that case, if you disconnect one drive from this bunch (not system one, of course), the rest might not boot, even when you put drive back, for example, because another Windows in another PC removed those files.
Try to launch old PC with SSD only, doenload EasyBCD and do BCD repair/reset. Turn off PC, attach HDD and it should boot with no issues then.

wolfie138 · 22 Oct 2015 at 08:46

what do you mean by the last bit, reinstall the HDD i took out? i don't want to do that, it's already installed in the new machine; had a browse and can't see anyhting that looks like boot files anyway.