Insert bootable Media In appropriate drive message

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:49 pm

Ok I dont know what the Hell is happening to my Old Packard bell computer (My little bros computer)200 MHZ Prcessor (Pethetic I know, its about 10 years or more old.) And All I was trying to do is Install a Extra HDD to the System, and now for some reason (I didnt move any IDE cables or nothing from the Original HDD that had the OS)

All I did was remove the CD-Rom drive, and now when I try to boot the COmputer (Even with the New HDD not connected) It finds the HDD but when Loading the OS when it was booting up, it gave me a message.
"Insert Bootable Media into a appropriate Drive"

and I tried makeing a MS DOS Boot disc and I put it in and I get I/O Error, So I checked the Cables from the Floppy drive, and nothing is wrong. Now my freaking brother is upset that his Computer is messed up.

Little Help plz?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:01 pm

BIOS problem. clearing CMOS (either by pulling the CMOS jumper or taking out the coin battery) should fix the problem.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:12 pm

Double-check the jumpers. Weird stuff happens when you have two Master or two Slave drives on the same IDE channel.

loup · Post by **loup** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:12 pm

bicostp wrote:Double-check the jumpers. Weird stuff happens when you have two Master or two Slave drives on the same IDE channel.

also when you have only one drive on an IDE channel and it is set to slave

[edit] making my statement a little clearer

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:40 pm

Ok I'll try all your Suggestions once I get home from night school.
Thanks for the Help.