Strange BIOS messages when I boot my new homebuilt

Do you have more than one hardrive connected? If so, windows may think you have 2 boot devices. I would disconnect the extra drives and pick one boot drive. Then connect the other drives while windows is running. Or windows may find two partitions on the same drive which means your installation wasn't done properly.

verify that you dont have an extra hard drive listed in your bios that its looking for and not finding. The choose windows version tends to come up when youve used an upgrade edition and will be there till you remove the old version. ( Dont know thats the case with you, but thats been my experience.)

I have only one hard drive and it is my primary boot device. My secondary is the dvd drive.

I had windows 7 home premium. When I built this pc I installed windows 7 ultimate on another partition and then formatted the partition with home premium on it.

Did you format the drive when you put it into your new rig?

either you have a messed up boot or multiple boot drives

as said above, if you got multiple drives, disconnect all but OS one and try then, if problem is solved one of your extra HDDs has windows OS on it which you need to get rid of.

if you only have 1 drive connected and the problem continues, you should format the drive and do a fresh install

That could be the cause, if you have multiple partitions still on the drive its going to do that, as for the DVD drive, it could (Weird) be detecting a copy of windows 7 hp in the dvd drive. Other than that its a odd situation.

Yes there are multiple partitions on the drive, and the partition with the other win 7 has been formatted as stated above, so why is it still showing up when I boot?

because when you do a new build you format the whole drive and add partitions after the OS

This message occurs because the BIOS thinks you may have a RAID installed but because you do not it displays the message. You can ignore this message.



The second option is probably to boot from the recovery partition, it is easy to get rid of this by downloading the program BCDedit You can use it as a free user.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-u...

try running the install again, choose repair. otherwise you could try editing the boot.ini via msconfig.