Boot Only With Install CD In Drive

Can Only Boot To OS If The Install DVD Is In The Drive?
I instaleld Windows 7 and have an odd issue.  It will only boot to the OS if the installation DVD is in the drive.If I remove the DVD it says "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter."I have tried booting to the DVD and repairing the OS but it does not find anything wrong.I removed partitions and reformatted and reinstalled but still does the same thing.

This only happens on my PC that has 2 physical HDD. Disk0 is split into 2 partitions, Disk1 is 1 parition.I installed from the same installation disk on my laptop (1HDD w/2 partitions) and it does not have this issue.Any idea what is going on or how I can fix it?

Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:18 PM

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Cannot Boot From Drive With Win 7 Install
I recently bought a new hard drive to install windows 7 (C:), I previously had Vista64 installed on another hard drive (D:). Currently when I start up with the D: it will bring me to a boot screen with a choice of OS to use. I had installed windows 7 on the drive with the intention of formatting the Vista64 drive to use it as a storage drive.

It was recently brought to my attention that windows 7 installs the boot file on the first hard drive listed in the bios, in my case the D: I tried booting from the C: with the windows 7 install, and it does not boot.

I have tried booting the windows 7 disc and running the system tools, using the cmd prompt to run: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /rebuildbcd The first command works, but the second and third commands give me a message of "element not found" when I hit enter.

I also tried running the auto boot fix from the system tools, everything I have tried still doesn't allow me to boot from my C: I was hoping someone could help me solve this problem.

Posted: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:59 AM

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Trying To Install XP On A Separate Drive For Dual Boot
I have Windows 7 RC1, and am trying to install XP on a separate drive but am getting the following error:

"Setup could not load the keyboard layout file KBDUS.DLL.

Setup cannot continue. Power down or reboot your computer now."

I restart and am able to go back to Windows 7...Any ideas on how to get around this??

Posted: 10-16-2009

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Can I Install WIN7 On A Thumb Drive And Boot From There ?
Can I install WIN 7 on a thumb drive and boot from there?I run a Core 2 duo 8 gig Ram,Is there a method to install 7 on a thumb drive so I can choose when to use 7 and when to use my current system? I cannot afford to drop current configuration at this time.

Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:56 PM

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Cannot Boot Win7 Without Install DVD Within Drive
The installation of Windows 7 (32 bit) went smoothly without any surprises but if I attempt to reboot without the install DVD within the drive I have a boot failure. I can restart my computer time and time again and it will boot as expected as long as the installation CD remains within the drive. I verified that my boot sequence is CD then Harddisk and never had this problem on XP.

Just in case, I thought I may have had a corrupted iso file, or something didn't install correctly so I've downloaded the 64bit flavor. The install again went smoothly but identical to the last time, I must keep the install dvd within the drive for a successful launch to the OS.

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:21 PM

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Cannot Boot Win 7 Without Install Disc In The Drive
Ok let me try and give some good backgound information here to help out. I successfully installed windows 7 from 32bit xp. I didn't reformat the partition I installed windows 7 to. Then windows would not boot without the windows 7 disc in the drive, even though it skipped boot from CD. I

f I removed the CD it told me ntoskrnl.exe couldn't be found. I deleted windows.old folder and the problem seemed to go away. I have 3 Hard drives. 6000GB (disc 0 ) 300 GB (disk1) both SATA. Then I have a 80GB IDE drive disc 2 as reported by disc management.

My BIOS boot order is DVD drive then Hard Drives. Disk 0 hosts the C: boot,active,pagefile, primary partition, and a partition F: of data files. Disk 1 hosts two primary partitions of data files. However disk 2 has a single partition listed as the primary, active system partition.

Its probably left over from ages past when it was my old windows install location for xp several installs of xp ago. A long time ago xp was installed on this drive. Then I upgraded and installed XP into what is now disk 0. I did delete the partitions of the drive 2 at one point under xp and set a single new partition....

But now I did a BIOS update and again the problem has returned. Of course windows.old didn't come back. I have disk 0 (with windows 7 installed) set first in the boot load order for harddrives...but I can only get windows loaded by leaving the install disc in the CD drive.

I tried removing disk 2: the IDE drive. Again same message. This time it boots from the DVD and windows startup repair doesn't detect ANY installations of windows. I ran it anyways, it detected/fixed nothing rebooted to the same thing. When I removed the install DVD plug back in disk 2 and windows 7 boots up with the install disk in the DVD drive.

so I tried using the automatic repair and that failed. I tried to load windows setup from my desktop and its telling me a message that I cannot copy temporary files to the boot partition when I have 50 GB free. I have not yet attempted to remove the 80GB "Disk 2" and do a repair installation.

I don't know what to do now, windows won't let me reset partitions, and the automatic start up doesn't detect my installation without disk 2 plugged in. I would like to remove disk 2 entirely from my system, and have windows 7 booting properly without that drive install in anyway. I hope I can avoid a reinstall as it was a long process to get everything up and running.

Posted: Sunday, November 29, 2009 5:20 AM

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Change / Remove Boot Drive After Install
I have a dual boot system with  XP Pro & Win7RC. I installed a second hard drive and installed Win 7 RC on the second drive. Both work ok. I would like to remove the XP drive from the system but I think the Boot record is on it and I am afraid that if I remove it the machine will not start Win 7.

Can I use the repair functions on the DVD to recreate the boot information on the new drive? Any other suggestions on how do I put the boot information on the new drive with Win7RC so I can remove the old one safely?

Posted: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:29 PM

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Boot BCD Error When Trying To Install From Flash Drive
I am in charge of upgrading a small computer lab from Windows XP to Windows 7 and I'm having a ____ of a time with it. One quirk of these computers is that they don't have a DVD drive, so I've made an install flash drive from an ISO we downloaded from Microsoft Volume Licensing. After jumping through a lot of hoops to create a bootable flash drive on XP, I think I have one that should work.

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:29 PM

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Dual Boot Install Winxp On Same Hard Drive
Dual boot. Anybody have an idiot proof step by step of installing xp on same hard drive as previously installed win7? Will this require installation of a boot manager?

Posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:23 PM

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Clean Install - Dual Boot With XP: Error Could Not Update The Computer's Boot Configuration
I am trying to do a clean install -dual boot configuration on an XP machine.I am using a RAID0 HD setup.I boot from the Windows 7 CD, install the RAID driver, and start installing files.At about 99% I get the error message"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.

Installation cannot proceed.".Any suggestions?I have read about the difference in the boot.ini and bcd files, but XP does not use bcd like 7 does.Can't Window's 7 be installed dual-boot on an XP machine?

Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:07 PM

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XP And 7 Install Issues (Won't Boot Into Win 7 Install)
I have XP SP2 installed. I used EASEUS Partition Master to split my drive in half, one half being XP, the other half being a future install of Windows 7.

Put DVD in, selected the blank partition, began the install. Once it gets to the first reboot, it will reboot and go straight into XP. There is no option to choose Windows 7. The XP boot.ini has only one entry for XP.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking I need to add an entry for Windows 7, but have no clue what to put and I'm also guessing I'd have to add a few special tags because it's booting into the setup process of Win 7.

Posted: 11-01-2009

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Boot Manager Missing / Boot From USB Drive
For some odd reason, after doing some changes to my partitions in Windows 7 and restarting my computer, I got the ol' "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I have the Windows 7 Repair Disc image file and a 4GB USB Flash Drive, but, sadly, no CDs. Is there any way that I can put the image file onto my USB Flash Drive and boot from it with my Acer Aspire X1200 desktop computer?

Posted:      11-26-2009

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Hard Drive Apparently Booting From Boot Record On Second Drive
I started with a win7 pro upgrade from Vista Business on Dell's OEM 250 GB hard drive. I then clean installed win7 pro on a new solid state drive. Next, deleted the windows folder on the original drive (now it is G). Problem:  It appears that win7 is now reading boot instructions from drive G before completing the Boot using Windows on C.

This works ok, but I would prefer to be able to put an image of c: on a new partition on G...but it won't let me. If I disconnect drive G: and then run repair on C: from the install disc it does not see an operating system on C:  I try repairs anyway, but after 7 or 8 tries it still won't boot from C:, even though the log states that a repair has been completed. Suggestions

Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:24 AM

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Dual Boot Issue With ' Boot Drive '
ok so im having a weird problem thats probably very easy to fix.

background info: before my Windows 7 install i had 3 partitions

vista 64

xp 32

empty (soon to be linux)

when i downloaded the newest win 7 build i deleted my xp 32 partition and installed Windows 7 on that partition. because Windows 7 creates that "reserve partition" or what ever, it extended my EMPTY partition with my vista partion. which cause it to become a "logical drive" rather than a "boot" drive. aka i cannot figure out how to access my vista OS.. rather annoying since im just toying with Windows 7 atm.

Posted: 04-26-2009

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Install Restarts After First Boot
I am trying to install Windows 7 Build 7000 on my computer. But it does not seem to want to continue install after the first restart.

Here is what I did:

I put in the dvd, and boot my computer from the DVD. I set the DVD to be the only boot device in the BIOS. The installer starts. I go through all the steps needed for install. It comes to the first restart, and the computer restarts. After a lot of waiting, the computer brings up the first step to the install. Where it shows the "Install Now" Button. (The install basically starts from step One again).

Not sure what I did wrong through all this. My computer Specs are AMD 6400 2.20Ghz, 2 Gigs of Ram, Clean 40 Gig IDE Hard drive, on Different IDE channel then the DVD Drive (Not sure if that is important). Linksys Wireless Add in Card, BFG Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT.

So if someone could help me get Windows 7 up and running, that would be great!

I forgot to say that I tried to install Windows 7 off a virtual drive from within XP, but that didnt seem to work after the first restart also. It did put the windows boot loader on my computer, but didnt finish the Windows 7 Install. I have a feeling that it tried to over-right my Windows XP install, because the boot loader only comes up when my XP drive is plugged in. When I tried installing 7 with the CD, I had my XP drive unplugged. So if 7 tried to install on my XP drive, how can I get the files off it, that I dont want on it anymore, and install Windows 7 on my other drive, in a XP and 7 Duel-boot.

Posted: 03-23-2009

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Dual Boot - Install XP AFTER W7
I have Windows 7 installed in C , Now I want to install XP in other partition (D) in the same HD, to work on dual boot.

I ask help from you because I could not do the installation by the obvious method: installing XP by booting its installation CD and choosing the D partition for the system, my Windows 7 stopped to work, I had to repair it with Windows 7 installation CD.

Posted: 06-27-2009

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No Dual Boot After Install
I did a Custom installation as indicated, on a separate primary partition(separate HDD). The host OS is/was Win Vista Ultimate 32 bit. After a very smooth install of Win7 64bit. I have a functioning install but no boot selection for Vista. The files are still intact on a separate HDD but no options in the start up cycle. Any ideas?

Posted: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:33 AM

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Can't Boot To Old Xp Install
I have just put win7 onto my pc proper after running it in a vm. The situation is: I have xp on the box, and I had opensuse on the box also, so I blew away the suse partition, and installed win7 into there.Win7 boots and generally runs perfect, but I dont get the option to boot to xp, I tried going to the system repair, off the boot disc, made no odds, I also went to my comp/props/advanced/startup and recovery, and had that scan to add xp, but it found nothing.

My suspicion is that because suse was using LILO, and I am not sure which partition the original xp boot config was, it may have been lost when I deleted the suse partion, could be my problem (am at work and cannot check pc, now)Are there any commands that may fix this in either the win7 repair CL or would using xp's fixmbr do it? though I am concerned that fixmbr may break win7s bootloader.

Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 3:31 PM

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Install / Boot Using ISCSI
Is it possible to install/boot Windows 7 using iSCSI and no local drives?

Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2009 5:45 PM

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Error When Trying To Boot Install Disc
I recently downloaded a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit through MSDN, burned the iso to a dvd using ImgBurn (Auto write speed) and then attempted to boot the disc.

The computer tries to load the files off the disc, and then this error pops up:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

File: windowsystem32ootwinload.exe

status: 0xc0000001

info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

I checked the file location, and the file was there. I decided to do a factory image restore (probably stupid of me) since I had already backed up all my files and was planning on doing a clean install of 7 anyway.

I then tried the boot again, but got the same error, even though I was under the impression that factory restore would fix any corrupted system files. Since, for all intents and purposes, my computer is "new", and there's nothing on it now except for what came with it, I'm at a loss as to what could be causing the problem.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720, running Vista 32 bit Home Premium. Intel Core Duo processor, 2.4 GHz.

Posted: 09-06-2009

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Win 7 Will Not Boot After Driver Install
I had a difficult time installing Windows 7 (RTM via MSDN) due to my RAID Array (nForce) and dual boot configuration with Vista (vista resides on striping, Win7 resides on separate non raid drive on the same SATA controller). It took me many tries but finally got a working install.  I've been using it for the past week or so.

After having several issues with the chipset drivers I finally installed manually (driver for each device via device manager) and everything was detected and worked sucessfully. Because of these previous issues I had experience with the repair process, attempted startup repairs, and individual checkpoint restores (full image backup was over 270G so I was unable to try this option) with no sucess.

Any time I would restore to a previous (known working) checkpoint before the point of failure Windows 7 would again fail to load. Reinstall was the only way I was able to resolve my issues.

I installed a driver last night knowing it might cause a problem. There was no Windows 7 equivalent available but because I had a regular working system for over a week I was marginally confident in my ability to restore to a previous working configuration (even through "last known good configuration"). After installing the Windows Vista x64 version of the driver the device worked sucessfully but I eventually met a blue screen. 

Upon reboot I received the loading bar and then the computer restarted. I then purposefully chose "last known good configuration" on the next boot and received the same result. I then tried safe mode, same error, and disabled the driver signing requirement and again, the same error.

Repair mode then appears on the next reboot but it immediately sends me back to the boot menu and Windows 7 or my previous operating system (Vista) are all that remain.

It appears I have no recourse, I expected to be able to do a repair and restore to before the driver was installed, but that has not been sucessful.  Are there any logs I can verify, files I can delete or restore from the DVD to resolve my issue prior to resulting to a format and reinstall?

Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:46 PM

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Dual Boot - Install Xp After Win 7
So, i've been using Windows 7 for a few months, and i decided to install XP on another HDD, which is completely empty. It all went well, except fot the dualboot thing, cause i can only boot XP. I've tried changing the boot sequence, and still only XP boots.

What can i do to make Windows 7 boot again?

Posted: 1 Week Ago

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W7 Install Disk Wont Boot
I upgraded from Vista 32 bit to W7 32 bit. Now I thought I would like to install W7 64 bit. I downloaded the iso file, burnt it to disk, but now the system won't boot from the disk for a fresh install. I used express burn to create the disk.Anyone else have the same problem?

Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:17 AM

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Post Install Dual Boot
I have 2 harddisks in a laptop. Disk 0 partition 1 had XP sp3 installed. I removed the drive and installed Windows 7 on disk 1. After installing office and AV. I re-installed the hard disk 0. I have attempted dual boot by creating a new boot config via bcdedit & copied XP boot files to both C:/ & D:/ Upon reboot, I get the option for Windows XP or Windows 7. If I select XP; it reboots and presents the same options again. Select windows 7 and it boots fine. Is there a way to define the disk & partition for each OS within bcdedit?

Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:40 PM

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Add Boot Loader After Install ?
when I installed win7, the installer put the boot loader on drive 0 which contains XP rather than on drive 1 which is where I installed win7.  hence, when I try to boot from drive 1 (my win7 drive), I get ntloader not found, naturally.  I have to boot from my XP drive 0, and select win7 from the boot menu. 

Posted: Saturday, August 08, 2009 6:12 AM

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Win 7 Dual Boot Install
Dual boot install was done with Vista on original C:    and Win7RC on another drive folder called "win7" - sucessful install by starting Win7RC from the dvd drive - not from inside of Vista and selecting the "Win7" folder/drive....OK when final version is installed - may i delete the Win7RC files or reformat that win7 folder and then start Vista - put the final Win7 dvd drive and start win7 install from  inside of Vista installing to the (reformated/deleted files) "Win7" drive ?

Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:09 PM

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Corrupt Xp Boot Ini After 7 Install
I was originally dual booting XP and Ubuntu on my main 240gb drive. I decided to give 7 a shot and in doing so wiped my ubuntu install, formatted a nice 50gb ntfs partition for 7 and installed it fine. However now when trying to boot into my "Previous Windows Installation" I'm getting a blank screen. I've tried using the XP recovery console from the disk to restore the bootmgr however chkdsk fails. I think somehow the partition table got rearranged during my install, and 7 didn't fix it for me. I have no idea what to do anymore since 7 won't allow me to change the partition value in my boot.ini file. I have a feeling that's all i need to do. I'm getting "Access is denied" on bootmgr and boot.ini in my XP home folder when accessing from Windows 7..

Posted: 06-20-2009

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Win 7 Wont Boot After Install
I checked for compatibility before installing the RC client. I installed windows 7 on a clean drive. My system is a 3GHz E3850 on EVGA 680 SLI board with 2 GB of Firestix 1200 and an EVGA Geforece 8800 GTX. Installation completes and the machine reboots, the windows 7 logo appears and then the screen goes black as if there is no signal from the video card. Do you have any idea what might be causing this. 

Posted: Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:21 PM

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Install Graphics Drivers It Fails On Re-boot
I have just bought 7 Profession 64-bit and upgrade from my Vista Home Prem install. Everytime i install graphics drivers it fails on re-boot.

As far as i can see the drivers install fine (newest ones on nvidia site 195.55 and 186.whatever) then i restart, it loads the "starting windows" page, goes through that fine, but when it tries to go on it just crashes forcing me to use system restore to remove the nvidia drivers so i can run it again.

Posted: 11-27-2009

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