Disc recovery problem

I have a HPE-400y desk top computer. (it was bought eight months ago)00000
I installed two extra hard drives in this system and they all set up and worked perfectly.
One day a few weeks ago... a message appeared in my windows program that my main hard drive.
(the one which came in the computer) had some serious defects and that it needed to be replaced
as soon as possible. I bought a new hard drive, and installed it in the computer.... I used the
three recovery disc's to re-install the HP programs and windows 7. which installed perfectly.
The problem I found was that the installation program had also formatted one of my other
hard drives, which was loaded with files.. and that now I do not get the blue start up screen
of HP's which also gave me the option to go into my bios setup area... I want to go in there
and tell the computer which hard drive to boot up too...
can anyone tell me what the set up F and number is to go into the bios set up?
Or and can someone give me some light on as to why this recovey program not only formatted
the new installed hard drive but one of my other ones also....
Thank you very much in advance for any comments or help.
Monte

can anyone tell me what the set up F and number is to go into the bios set up?
From HP's website:
To enter the BIOS Setup utility.
Use one of the following sections to open the BIOS Setup utility.
BIOS version 6 or less
Turn off the computer and wait five seconds.
Turn on the computer.
When the first screen displays, do one of the following:
Immediately press the F10 key if your computer was built in 2006 or later (came with Vista or Windows 7). Press the key once every second until a BIOS Setup utility screen opens.
Immediately press the F1 key if your computer was built before 2006 (XP or earlier). Press the key once every second until a BIOS Setup utility screen opens.
NOTEn some Compaq Presario computers (before 2002), press the F10 key at the logo screen.
BIOS version 7 or greater
Turn off the computer and wait five seconds.
Turn on the computer.
When the first screen displays, do one of the following:
Immediately press the F10 key repeatedly, about once every second, until the Computer Setup program opens.
Immediately press the Escape key repeatedly, about once every second, until the Startup menu opens. Then press F10 to open the Computer Setup program.
Or and can someone give me some light on as to why this recovey program not only formatted
the new installed hard drive but one of my other ones also....
Any time you install an OS or recovery a system it as reccomended to remove all non-essential, non-original and/or all non-system hard drives and media. This is to minimize failure of the installation, failure of the system recovery and accidental erasure of non-system hard drives and media.
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