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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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Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step."

I looked around the web and noticed this was a common issue with Vista, but I cannot seem to get it past this point. I have tried pointing it to any and all possible drivers I can think of for the IDE, SATA, motherboard, etc.

Then I decided to just try it from within windows xp, and it worked. I was able to install everything fine. So my question is if it can be installed from the disk like it appears everyone is saying, or if certain hardware requires it to be done from within windows.

I tried copying the driver folder from the system32 folder after 7 had been installed hoping the needed drivers would be in there, but when I browsed to it, it said no device drivers found.

Any suggestions around this? Is it even necessary? I am wanting a system that would be equivalent to formatting the hdd and then installing. Do I get that by installing within XP and then deleting the windows.old folder?

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Posted: 11-08-2009

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got a strange problem. dont seem to be able to boot from hard drive without the installation dvd in disc. even disabled everything else in boot sequence but just has error message saying put dvd in then press enter. im running a mirror sata raid set up which had boot enabled in f10 raid utility.

im completely lost. can anyone tell me please how to resolve this before i install the whole o/s again and probably with the same outcome id imagine. many thanks. otherwise apart from that this one great o/s. below is my rig specs.

asus striker 2 formula4gb oz platinum ddr 2 1066mhzbfg geforce 9800gx22x 75gb raptor 10,000rpm in raid (mirror)1 x hitachi desktar 75gbcustom watercooled

Posted: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:49 PM

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So I'm trying to format my PC.

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Original Installation Disc which the PC is currently running (Vista x64 OEM) Windows 7 Technet Disc Fresh Ubuntu 9.1 (for testing purposes, also failed to boot)

I've tried:
multiple discs each with a fresh download and burned .iso changing boot priority going through the Boot Menu to select the USB-FDD or CD-ROM options

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Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:15 AM

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(tried those singly as well), all of which works fine for XP, but this is exactly the same problem I had trying to instal Vista, which I had to give up on. I thought it might have been Vista being a bit picky and i hoped for a solution with 7. Â I assume it must be something in the bios, which is latest version, but I 'm blowed if I know what it is.

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:45 PM

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So, I have an interesting problem with installing Win 7 from XP. I'm doing a full install over the old XP drive.

I have an unusual hardware configuration. I have 2 HDD's, one is SATA, and the other is on a legacy IDE. The SATA drive is a WD Raptor which I use for the OS and the IDE is a slower, larger drive I use for storing data. Additionally, the IDE drive is the Slave on the IDE chain. In XP, this worked great, because the system would boot to the SATA drive and I could use both drives.

When I went to install 7, both drives appear in the list, but their letter names were reversed: the OS drive was listed as "D" and the data drive was listed as "C". I didn't think much of it until later. I installed on "D" which was the SATA drive. After install, I noticed that my IDE drive wasn't listed in file explorer.

So I opened the Disk Manager and found that both drives were listed, but only the install disk was active. However, the IDE drive was Disk 0, and the SATA drive was Disk 1 and labeled "C:". I activated the IDE drive and it became "E:" (the DVD-ROM was already "D:"). I attempted to reboot and got an error "BOOTMGR is missing". If I put in the Win 7 install DVD it will boot to the SATA drive.

I read some of the other threads here and attempted fixes using "bootrec.exe" to no avail. I finally decided to reinstall again on the SATA drive. Again, 7 listed the SATA drive as Disk 1/"C:", and the IDE drive as Disk 0/(no letter). This time, I didn't activate the IDE drive and tried to reboot. New message "No system disk...". Put in the Win 7 DVD and it boots to the SATA drive.

My current theory is that Windows 7 is getting confused about the drive ordering when creating the boot sector on the drives. I ran out of time last night, but I thought I would unplug the IDE drive and do a fresh install on the SATA drive, then plug in the IDE drive after things were booting normally.

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ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe

AMD 4200+ CPU

OCZ 4GB RAM

(IDE) Hitachi 320GB

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nVidia 7600GT

Can someone offer some advice on how to solve this so I don't need the Win 7 DVD in all the time?

Posted: 10-28-2009

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This message comes before the boot screen. Win 7 was installed on a new parition and gave itÂ a drive letter.Â Prior to Win 7 install, it booted from Vista OK. Even tried the Win 7 System Repair disc but it found nothing wrong. I hate to have to leave the disk in the drive just to boot. Any ideas?Â

Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:06 AM

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Posted: 05-27-2009

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I rebooted and tried again, same thing. I then removed the SATA cable going to the DVD drive and it still refused to boot. I booted in to Safe Mode and everything seemed to be fine. I couldn't see anything specific in the event logs so rebooted and it still wouldn't load.In a fit of pique I backed up what I wanted to an eSATA drive and decided to re-install. Everything seems to be working okay, including the first reboot.

However when it reloads and tries to complete the installation I end up on a black or blank screen with a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen and that's where it stays no matter how long I leave it.I removed my sound card and moved the graphics card, an Nvidia 9800 GX2, to another slot and tried the install again. Same thing.I can't think what the ____ has gone wrong here.

IIRC when I installed Vista and Win 7 before the screen flashed to that black screen briefly twice. I suspect that this is where it is detecting the graphics card. If so why is it now hanging at that point since all I did was plug in a SATA cable?I should point out that the installations I was doing were with the power turned off of course!Any suggestions at this point would be great i.e. is my mobo or gfx card broken!?

Posted: Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:34 PM

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Win7 Will Only Boot Up With Installation DVD In Drive
I installed Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit edition today and it will not start without the instiallation DVD in the driveIf the DVD isÂ not in the drive i get error message"Boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter"

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Posted: Sunday, November 01, 2009 4:33 PM

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I am having a problem after installing Win 7 HP 64 bit. The installation completes, but when I reboot with out the install dvd in the drive, it says boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter. I am upgrading from Win XP Pro 32bit.

Prior to installing the retail version, I was dual booting XP pro and Win 7 RC on two hdd's. I formatted the Win 7 drive in XP, then did a clean install of Win 7, formatting the drive with the installer.Â Any ideas as what I need to do?Â Like I said, my problem is that Win 7 won't boot unless the install dvd is in the drive.

Posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:51 AM

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I have a third internal 1.5 terabyte hard drive.The 1.5 terabyte (C:) HD is for my Win7 OSÂ & my programs.The RAID-0 array (D:) is for my games. (RAID-0 is for fast loading performance)I think it recognized one of the RAID-0 drives as the "first hard drive attached to my motherboard" and somehowÂ Windows 7 put the boot loader info on that hard drive, instead of my 1.5 terabyte C: drive with Windows 7.

As a result, Windows 7 won't boot unless I have the DVD in the drive.Â I tried the option to boot from the DVD, repair my computer, and from the command prompt do a "bootrec /rebuildbcd" but that failed.

So the only fix I see is to PHYSICALLY disconnect the 2 RAID-0 drives, and then do a full install of Windows 7 again. What a royal pain-in-the-____.Â My motherboard is an ASUS P6T.Â Any hotfix in the works?

Posted: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:45 PM

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