Win 7 will not boot unless dvd is in drive

[minotrr]

I'm not quite sure if I myself can fix this but I've been using my computer for about a year now just keeping the installation disk in the drive.. If I remove it, it will not boot when powered on. It hasn't always done this. When powered on without the disk it says something like "please insert cd or dvd" Thanks!

 

[fowang]

sounds like something i had an issue with, use easy BCD to set your c drive as the boot partition

 

[minotrr]

Thanks fowang, could you explain how to do that?

 

[fowang]

download easy bcd (google it) and install it, when you have it open go to BCD backup/repair then Change boot drive then click perform action and that should fix it

Hope that helps.

 

[minotrr]

Thank you very much, I'll let you know.

 

[minotrr]

I did exactly what you said. It did not work though unfortunately. I had the system disk out of the computer when it booted and it says "Verifying Dmi Pool Data..."
"DISK BOOT FAILURE; INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER..."

 

[john the swift]

A question for you, in your BIOS Boot order, do you have your Hard Disk Drive selected in that order? or is it disabled?

 

[minotrr]

The hard drive is enabled to boot first.