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Speedster is 100% correct
But; I think if you just change the jumper on your old drive from the current "master" or cable select position it is currently set to / change it to the slave position then it wont try to boot any more.
You must understand you new HP system boot drive is a SATA drive, but motherboard bios's give preference to IDE boot drives, its kind of like a calf loves moma, when you scare the calf it wants momma. Well when your new computer has that IDE drive connected as master it thinks momma is home.
simply change the jumper pin and reboot. If by some weird chance it still tries to boot , then reboot the computer / enter the bios/ reset the boot order to boot from the cd-rom drive as first boot and the sata drive as second boot device and nothing else should be listed / then exit and save changes (even though there really wont be any changes)
or you can do the easier thing and substitute the cd-rom drive as speedster has stated; but this will only be a temp solution until you copy all your music to the new system drive.
The first option I listed, you could leave the old drive mounted in the system and use it as a back-up copy for your music. You should keep a back-up drive for all computers. Its very foolish these day to have a computer with only one drive installed, drives are very affordable and we all need back-up. Drives are very affordable but no where nearly as reliable as the good ole days!
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