Windows 7 Only Loads When the Installation Disk is In?

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Hi.

About a week ago I switched my computer on and was greeted with an error message saying the boot device is inaccessible. (Admittedly it wasn't as for some reason the bios wasn't picking up my first 3 SATA devices) Following a restart they reappeared in the bios but Windows still wouldn't load.

I followed the on screen instructions of inserting the installation disk and selecting repair. I did this restarted and it went straight into Windows. In my panic I made a new system image as the old one was about 2 months old as I thought everything was fine again...

Since then I've found out the 'repair' did sweet FA as if the Windows disk is not in the dvd drive Windows is not detected. It's a 0xc000000f error and googling has brought up http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927391 and http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+with+EasyBCD. Neither of which seem to work.

For some reason when in the recovery console Windows is being detected on H:\ rather than C:\? Which is weird as my drives are:

c:\ Windows (SSD)
d:\ System reserved
e:\ standard data storage (backups) (hdd1)
f:\ data storage (my docs etc) (hdd2)
g:\Games and Application installations (hdd2)
j:\ system reserved (This is new and has only appeared in the last day or so!)
h:\DVD Writer
i:\ Blu Ray Writer

I have no idea why Windows needs it's install disk in to load after its worked perfectly since I did a fresh install last summer when I got the SSD. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
 
Hi.

Windows was previously installed on the larger hdd2 drive but this was repartitioned either during the installation or straight after, can't quite remember which. Either way there has been only 1 'Windows' directory since at worst within 2 hours of setup.

I've recently unplugged an external USB card reader which to be fair never registered in Windows unless a card was in it. (No visible drives in My Computer) I've plugged it back in as a test and no luck.

It just seems strange that the machine was fine for 6 months but about 4-5 days ago its suddenly lost its boot drive without me making any software changes!
 
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