yes it's a common problem. quite irritating. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Grab EasyBCD and re-write the MBR to your hard drive.
On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:11:01 -0400, Brian Weeden wrote > Just installed my first Vista system (Ultimate, using it for my HTPC) > and have a weird problem. The install process never copied over > the boot files - the system will not boot unless the install DVD is > in the drive. Otherwise it just hangs at the DMI screen after the > BIOS post. I nuked it and did a second install and the same problem > happened. > > I don't know anything about Vista - is this a common problem? What's > the fix? With an XP system I would normally just copy over ntldr > and make sure the boot.ini file is correct but I don't see those > anywhere on the Vista system. > > ---- > Brian
