Hello BB and Reverend,
Reverend's suggestion made me look at the cmos again. I found why it wasn't working. On the choices of boot device ide 1 was the choice after floppy drive. My motherboard manual has ide 1 and ide 2 labeled. When I went into cmos and started looking around I saw that there was an ide 0 choice. To make a long story short my motherboard manual calls them ide 1 and ide 2, but the cmos considered them to be ide 0 and ide 1. In CMOS Ide 1 was set as cd rom (ide 2 on the motherboard actually) so it skipped my hard drive which was actually on ide 0 (ide 1 for the motherboard manual).

Alls well that ends well, thnx for the help.

-Robert