Vista Won't Boot Without Disc

**djphatic** · 29-Jan-2007, 01:57 PM

hi

I recently installed vista ultimate x64 by booting from the disc using the f11 boot menu and formatting my hard-drive with winxp installation to have a clean vista install. After installation, i have a problem where vista will not boot unless the bios is set to boot from cd/dvd drive and the disc must be in the drive; otherwise i get the message "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". If I then put the disc in and press enter, it still will not boot; so the disc must be in the drive when the PC starts/restarts and the bios set to boot from cd/dvd drive.
The drive I have installed vista onto is a 80gb SATA; I tried booting into vista with all other devices disconnected so only the hard-drive was connected on its own, but this still didnt work.

Having a look around I havent found a solution yet but someone managed to fix there problem (was a different mobo tho) by flashing their bios to the latest version. I was running version 1.9 and updated to 1.D; though this hasnt fixed the problem and instead the booting up of the PC seems to be slower as it takes longer for IDE detection to come up. I flashed the bios down a step to 1.C to see if this speeded things back up but it still has a slower boot and the IDE detection doesnt come up as quick as on 1.9. Is this common?

I can live with the slower IDE detection but I would like to fix the problem with booting vista via the dvd; anyone have any suggestions?
Also I have noticed that the SATA drives are displayed under Device Manager as ATA devices within Vista; I havent been able to install any nforce4 drivers which comply with vista x64 so the drivers installed are from vista installation.

Any help is much appreciated.

Mark

**djphatic** · 29-Jan-2007, 03:52 PM

turns out that if youve got PATA (IDE) drives connected vista will install the Master Boot Record (MBR) onto Device 0; this being your primary IDE hard drive. Ive managed to fix it by disconnecting all hard-drives other than the one im installing to before installing vista.
I imagine you can just disconnect the PATA drives rather than all drives.

Hope this helps.

29-Jan-2007, 01:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
djphatic Fix my Error! Posts: 2 Join Date: Jan 2007 Rep Power: 0 IM:	Vista Won't Boot Without Disc hi I recently installed vista ultimate x64 by booting from the disc using the f11 boot menu and formatting my hard-drive with winxp installation to have a clean vista install. After installation, i have a problem where vista will not boot unless the bios is set to boot from cd/dvd drive and the disc must be in the drive; otherwise i get the message "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". If I then put the disc in and press enter, it still will not boot; so the disc must be in the drive when the PC starts/restarts and the bios set to boot from cd/dvd drive. The drive I have installed vista onto is a 80gb SATA; I tried booting into vista with all other devices disconnected so only the hard-drive was connected on its own, but this still didnt work. Having a look around I havent found a solution yet but someone managed to fix there problem (was a different mobo tho) by flashing their bios to the latest version. I was running version 1.9 and updated to 1.D; though this hasnt fixed the problem and instead the booting up of the PC seems to be slower as it takes longer for IDE detection to come up. I flashed the bios down a step to 1.C to see if this speeded things back up but it still has a slower boot and the IDE detection doesnt come up as quick as on 1.9. Is this common? I can live with the slower IDE detection but I would like to fix the problem with booting vista via the dvd; anyone have any suggestions? Also I have noticed that the SATA drives are displayed under Device Manager as ATA devices within Vista; I havent been able to install any nforce4 drivers which comply with vista x64 so the drivers installed are from vista installation. Any help is much appreciated. Mark

29-Jan-2007, 03:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
djphatic Fix my Error! Posts: 2 Join Date: Jan 2007 Rep Power: 0 IM:	Re: Vista Won't Boot Without Disc turns out that if youve got PATA (IDE) drives connected vista will install the Master Boot Record (MBR) onto Device 0; this being your primary IDE hard drive. Ive managed to fix it by disconnecting all hard-drives other than the one im installing to before installing vista. I imagine you can just disconnect the PATA drives rather than all drives. Hope this helps.

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