Won't boot without XP CD in drive?

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In your bios is the hard drive labled as 0 zero or 1 one
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Don Kendrick



"boe" wrote:

> I've checked my PC bios and I've tried to change the boot device priority to
> make HD the first but that still doesn't resolve the issue. I've checked my
> boot ini and it is the same as my other PCs-
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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> If I start the PC without the XP CD in the drive, it says no boot device
> detected. But if I leave the disk in, it eventually boots off the hard
> drive. Is there a registry setting I need to change?
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