Vista boot up trouble

I have vista loaded on an INtel 865 motherboard with a 500 Gb SATA drive as
the C drive. Installation was fine. If I reboot, I get the error about not
having a boot device. If I have the Vista DVD in the ROM drive, I get the
message about booting from Disc, but if I ignore it, the computer boots up
from the Hard drive. I want to be able to to take the disc out of the drive
and boot normally. Any ideas?


Bart

I haven't had that problem, but have used this solution for other strange
boot issues:

Boot from the CD, then choose the repair option. I have found that even
when it says it did not find a problem, on the next boot, the system works
fine. Don't know why that is.

"Bart" wrote:

> I have vista loaded on an INtel 865 motherboard with a 500 Gb SATA drive as
> the C drive. Installation was fine. If I reboot, I get the error about not
> having a boot device. If I have the Vista DVD in the ROM drive, I get the
> message about booting from Disc, but if I ignore it, the computer boots up
> from the Hard drive. I want to be able to to take the disc out of the drive
> and boot normally. Any ideas?
>
>
> Bart
>
>

Bart;702698 Wrote:
> I have vista loaded on an INtel 865 motherboard with a 500 Gb SATA drive
> as
> the C drive. Installation was fine. If I reboot, I get the error about
> not
> having a boot device. If I have the Vista DVD in the ROM drive, I get
> the
> message about booting from Disc, but if I ignore it, the computer boots
> up
> from the Hard drive. I want to be able to to take the disc out of the
> drive
> and boot normally. Any ideas?
>
>
> Bart

Hi Bart,

You might take a look at your BIOS boot option settings to make sure
that the hard drive is listed as one of the devices to boot from. For
example, I have my BIOS boot order set to boot from the CD/DVD drive
first, then the hard drive. If there is no bootable cd in the drive, it
will automatically boot to the hard drive.

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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