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Can't boot into Windows unless I do something counterintuitive
I THINK I have all of this spelled out as it goes. It's gotten to be a blur.
I created a Windows repair disk and now my laptop won't boot into Windows (7 Pro 32-bit) unless the repair disk is in the optical drive. I ran the repair option three times (as instructed elsewhere on here) to where it says there are no problems. But now the only way for me to get into Windows is - and here's the part that's driving me totally crazy - is to leave the disk in the optical drive but change the boot order to hard drive first, optical drive second. If I leave it to boot from the optical first, I get a BOOTMGR missing error.
I also tried using the AOMEI Partition Assistant (also as instructed elsewhere) but, when I right click on the system drive, there is no option to Rebuild MBR. And, as always seems to be the case these days, I don't have the install disk.
I'm at a total loss here. HELP!
(PS - I know it says I'm running 7 Ultimate-64 bit under my avatar but this is my laptop which is Pro 32-bit)