Bootable device error after installing new hard drive

[WajidB]

I was having Compac Presario CQ60-220US, with the windows 7 operating system. But just a one week back I got blue screen of death. So to get rid of this I have installed a new hard drive. I thought that will solve the problem I am facing, but I was wrong. After installing this hard drive again I got the same blue screen of death, so I tried to restart the system with the option of last good configuration known. But that also gone in vain, I received the same error again. I have also try to boot the system using the option of Boot from CD but there also hard luck. After trying number of things now I am getting the error of “no bootable device found - please insert disk." This is really annoying, if you have any solution for this problem then please let me know.

[Eru]

You can try to boot your system using the windows live CD, I am sure that you will be solve the problem you are facing. This is solution for the above question but I am also having one problem that is I want to add a hard drive on an old P4, it currently has a 40 GB disk and it works very well. I added another 80 GB disk, Windows starts but do not detect it, it probably is not recognized by the motherboard, not serious. I tried to put another 40 GB a slave and boot it tells me "Invalid system disk, I / O Error" Yet the first disk with Windows is supreme. I tried putting both drives on the same channel on two different but cannot start with the second disk of 40 GB connected. Any related help will be appreciated.

[Felix46]

Have you gone back in bios to make the detection of ATA drive? Your problem can come from, and a mother board of P4, you can install another 80GB HDD without worries. If you change the drive system of "spot" (sheet or Master / slave) boot information will no longer be valid. Partitions are addressed by the boot of windows according to their position. You can see your windows boot.ini. E.g. If you change the location of the boot.ini idisque no longer point to the right place and there will be no system to launch. To correct this: Boot on winXP CD and immediately at the beginning it asks you to "repair an installation etc." There you will be in the recovery console and use the command fixmbr and fibBoot remttre to fix it all. I am sure that this will solve the problem that you are facing.

[Aandaleeb]

I left the system disk in its place, the mere fact of putting the other drive as a slave crashes with "Invalid system disk I / O error". First layer: Master: disk 40 GB. First layer: Slave: Second layer: Master: drive, recognized. Second layer: slave disk 80 GB that causes the error at boot. I also tried putting the first layer 2 to bring the two hard drives together, they stay the same. With the 40 GB starts but there is no sign of success. Why I am not getting thing done with this 40 GB or 80 GB. The 80 GB has a FAT32 partition, and it was a slave on another PC before I have got this. Is this issue is related to the jumper of the hard drive.

[mathews]

I am also having similar kind of issue but with the external drive, whenever I am connecting the drive, problem starts. In my case it is an external hard drive that was accidentally disconnected during use, since I can no longer access the files therein. When I connect the computer system it stops and all my other applications including programs to retrieve files. So I am turning in circles for quite some time since I cannot use programs. I tried several solutions found on the net such as this one but I encounter another problem. I work with Vista and when I follow the tips above, having developed "IDE ATA / ATAPI" in the "Computer Management" but I do not think that the problem is with "IDE Channel". There is no "principal" or "secondary." I am going up to "Advanced Settings" from the "IDE Channel" and there is no proposal in that window, I simply "Enable direct memory access DMA" and the box is checked! Now what more I can do to solve the problem that I am facing?