Harddrive not being read

[sparrow500]

ok guys, please help urgent!

My friend has a SATA 250gb harddrive.. it ran fine in my pc. so i set it up in his ( this is his only one ) it is running windows 7 ( with nothing on ) . it reads the hardrive in bios, BUT it will not let us change the boot priority, and when I start up it says, BOOTMRG cannot be found ( something like that ) then press Ctrl=alt=dlt to restart . please help! i have put the HD in all different 5 sata ports but that is not helping . plz help!

 

[sparrow500]

someone please help!

 

[steadfast1984]

update the bios, it could have compatibility issues. or there might be a setting in the bios your missing. did you say that your 250 HDD that ran in your rig is the ONLY harddrive in his comp, or is it a second one. if so, there might be a second setting in your bios to set what hdd is recognized first in the list. then that will be the one that shows up in your boot priority.

 

[sparrow500]

ok thanks! firstly how do I update the bios with out getting to windows ?? and secodnly, the harddrive was working in my PC has a secondary. So that could be the problembut how do we change it. thanks

 

[sparrow500]

the motherboard is a intel media series one, oh and my harddrive did not work in his pc either. what happened was, it started loading my windows 7 then just shut down.

 

[sparrow500]

please guys! someone must know, i need to get this fixed...

 

[mikey5802]

Try booting with the Win 7 DVD and select the REPAIR option, that should fix the bootmgr not found error.

No need to update the BIOS!!