Reboot and Select proper boot device after adding 2nd HDD, HELP

Clevaleva

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Okay, so to demonstrate situation.

Im on an acer system and i had an old HDD from an ex External HDD (Hitachi) I decide to add it to my currentting rig alongside my current seagate HDD, both are 1tb... Enter hell. Now im getting this message continuously. No matter what i set the boot order as i cannot boot from a cd to reinstall (Tried with a win 7 disk, then an 8.1 disk, both to no avail). Tried altering sata locations, removing the added drive, restoring defaults in BIOS, nothing working, still getting this screen.

Also was cleaning dust from fan prior, so ive completed three rounds of "This is in firm, so is this, ugh, nothings out of place! Unless i missed something..."


If it makes any difference, before this i had a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows 7, using a Gnome bootloader, im not sure if that would affect my ability to boot from a cd though as i can still access BIOS and whatnot.

Never encountered this problem and im out of options, so any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.
 

SBMfromLA

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I have a similar problem... I have a Gigabyte motherboard and I set the first boot device as the Optical drive then the hard drive... but it seems to sometimes skip the optical had head straight to the SSD drive. So when I want or need to boot up from the disk... I press the key to OPEN BOOT OPTIONS... during POST... it displays like for a couple of seconds then I turn on my computer... then I just select the CD/DVD drive and no problem... Does your BIOS have a Boot Options button during Post? On mine... DEL is to enter BIOS and I think F12 brings up Boot Options...
 

Clevaleva

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Update

I am able to boot a pmagic bootable disk, however neither my win 7 or 8 disks work. However, after booting pmagic disk i am presented with a "Welcome to Grub" screen, the ubuntu bootloader for a short second, after, i get a linux kernel panic. I think i may have created a huge mess here.

Going to try creating a bootable usb with OS on it, will report back
 

Clevaleva

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I can seem to only boot to certain disks, like toolkit bootable cd's. If i try and access the boot order (Which is f12) it just takes me straight the the "Reboot and select proper boot device message".

Man, I have created hell somehow, and i dont know how I did it.
 

Clevaleva

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Accidentally hit this as best answer, damn im new at this haha

Anyhow, i tried to do this before to no avail