Can't boot on windows 7 without installation CD

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I recently installed windows 7 64 bit on my new computer and evrything went fine during the installation. But when i try to load the OS without the install cd inside my drive i get the error
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.

But evrything goes fine if its inside the drive and i dont do anything. Windows will find the file and boot.
I tried to use the repair tool on the installation cd but it doesnt find anything.


So far im stuck with always having the installation cd in my drive when i boot windows. Any solution could help.
 

vvhocare5

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You arent telling us enough to help. 99.99% of these work fine. Something is wrong with your system or something you did...

Did you re-use an old drive? IS there an existing partition on this drive? Did you re-partition and reformat? Is this a SATA drive, motherboard based?

If you tell us the full story someone can help...
 

number13

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in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, Disk 0, is the system reserved partition Active, sorry to use the 32 bit tree but I am not using 64bit, hope this helps