Old Compaq - need help

I was wondering if anyone can help? I have an old Compaq Presario Desktop (DQ079A), I need to run to run as a backup (long story)... under Windows 98SE (yet more long story).

I have a Western Digital IDE drive hard 80 GB that I work perfectly on another HP (Evo D330M) but, when I try to get the Presario to boot from it, all I get is a "Non system disk error". The hard drive is detected at startup upward.

The Presario has a price/MSI MS-6577 v2.1 Motherboard and Phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG.

One idea would be welcome.

Thank you

Hi Paul

Thank you very much for this tip... went into the BIOS and set it to auto - worked the first time...

See you soon

Keith

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