Try This...
I know I just installed an MSI K9MM-V motherboard on a project and had the same problem, has one SATA HD (main) one IDE HD and one IDE DVD-WR. Kept giving me the same non-sense. I ended up moving my boot HD to position 2 (the SATA one) and set IDE HD to boot 1. and it works, makes no sense since the IDE HD does NOT have an operating system on it. I played wth the BIOS on all setting and on a lark tried this, and it worked.
NOTE: My BIOS, V 1.6 has the IDE as channel 0 and SATA as 1 and 2 even if I switch the channel 0 off...
Try playing around in your BIOS before you keep formating and messing with the HD.
My Motherboard has the Award/Pheonix BIOS and is very basic in nature.
Hope this helps.
GR
I know I just installed an MSI K9MM-V motherboard on a project and had the same problem, has one SATA HD (main) one IDE HD and one IDE DVD-WR. Kept giving me the same non-sense. I ended up moving my boot HD to position 2 (the SATA one) and set IDE HD to boot 1. and it works, makes no sense since the IDE HD does NOT have an operating system on it. I played wth the BIOS on all setting and on a lark tried this, and it worked.
NOTE: My BIOS, V 1.6 has the IDE as channel 0 and SATA as 1 and 2 even if I switch the channel 0 off...
Try playing around in your BIOS before you keep formating and messing with the HD.
My Motherboard has the Award/Pheonix BIOS and is very basic in nature.
Hope this helps.
GR