Thread: reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot

Hi everyone,

my brothers girlfriend used PC yesterday generally without doing something strange, and shut it down without any difficulties.

My brother started PC today and "boot-menu" screen stayed on for 1or 2 minutes when it generally disappears after 6 to 7 seconds, but when that gone screen went black and shows:

Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media. When today before I started it and looked at BIOS and boot sequence, in the boot order was

1st: CD-ROM
2st: Hard Drive
3st: USB

I am not very much know about PCs but I altered first to Hard Drive because PC boot with hard drive that has operating system installed on it. That didn't work so I altered it back. Hope someone helps me.

Hi,

Does it notice hard drive in Bios what I mean does it list it by name not just Hard drive?
How old is the hard drive?

Do you have operating system disc?

It only shows Hard Drive, but where I wrote CD-Rom it does not show that. It shows many things: P CD/2fjhiIO/jfsdigp/--- _-- like this.

The entire PC was bought in end of last year and it is having Vista Home Premium 32-bit.

I have study on sites I found on Google that to check BIOS settings for Boot Sequence and many says that it doesn't show Hard Driver it shows your hard drives name or model is.

1st [(CD/DVD,4M-Optiarc DVD RW AD-720)]

2nd Hard Drive

3rd USB

This shows on the boot sequence on my brothers PC.