Can only boot Windows 7 with physical CD in optical drive

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williamwalnut

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Searched around and haven't found this problem yet. When to turn my computer on and it said "BOOTMGR is missing, press CAD to restart". I popped by windows 7 CD in and booted from that, did the system recovery and fixed the issue or so I thought.

It created a new 100mb drive "system reserved (F: )" which I'm assuming holds the BOOTMGR. I removed the CD, restart my PC and had the exact same BOOTMGR message. I put the windows CD back in, restart my PC, and it booted right to the home screen first try. I have my BIOS set to boot from the HD first and CD second. Any thoughts?
 
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Meatfish

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Is the HDD showing up in the BIOS? Have you specified the right HDD? BOOTMGR normally means that your system can't find the drive with Windows on it to boot from, so go back and make sure you have the right drive specified for booting from. If you are somehow trying to boot into the F drive, boot with the CD, repair install and delete the F partition. Then restart and go into your BIOS to make sure your boot priority is for HDD first and that you have specified the right HDD to boot from.
 
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