Annoying boot issue

Martynt74

Martynt74

Martynt74

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I'm trying to resuscitate an old computer.

Put a windows 7 disk in and got to the install menu and got an error. Checked my cables and I'd not plugged the hard drive sata cable into the motherboard. Dummy mistake but easily fixed!

Restarted and now I can't even get to the install menu. I get the "press any key to boot from cd" but then it gives me the bootmgr is missing error.
The keyboard is then unresponsive and I can't press curl alt del to restart or do anything.

Any ideas what I can try to get it to boot the cd? It worked fine before I plugged the hard drive in. No idea about the hard drive as I bought it off here. But surely even if faulty I should get to the installation menu?
 
Also it's set it boot from cd first.

Having unplugged the hard drive again it works fine and boots from cd with no issue and gets to the install screen.
 
Make sure the BIOS is set correctly to boot from CD first. If you get error bootmgr is missing then clearly its not picking the CD first.
 
Badfish said:
Make sure the BIOS is set correctly to boot from CD first. If you get error bootmgr is missing then clearly its not picking the CD first.
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This, but it could be that the CD is suitably damaged or the drive isn't working correctly, so its trying to use the CD and then skipping ...
 
Yeah it was set that way. Was just bizarre as it prompde to press any key to boot from cd but then ignored it. Without the HD connected it booted fine from CD and loaded up the installer as expected.

Ended up creating a USB ISO and that worked fine :)
 
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