Disc Boot Error

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System Info:
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X@ Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20GHz
RAM: 2 GB

I am currently getting a weird error during my bootup. Anytime I boot my system up I get the error:

Disc Read Error
Press [Ctrl] [Alt] [Delete] to restart

UNLESS I have my windows XP install disc in the disc drive. With this disc in the drive it give me the option to press any key to boot from CD. I dont press any key and it boots up into my OS with no problems.

More about my setup.
I originally just had Vista 32-bit installed on an IDE drive designated at the C: drive. I installed a new Sata drive and was going to install XP on it. I had put my XP install disc in the drive but then remembered I got a free Win7 Install download from school (im a college student). I downloaded the install and ran it from Vista. I installed a clean install of windows 7 on the Sata drive designate as the E: drive. The whole time I installed it my XP disc was in the drive. There were no problems during the install.

If I disconnect all drives except for the Sata drive with Win7 on it I get the error messege:

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Im wondering if there is no boot record on my E: drive and the boot record on my C: drive is corrupted somehow? What makes the windows XP install disc special that it allows me to boot into either Vista or Win7? I have never installed XP on this system.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
Check in the BIOS and make sure that the Windows 7 hard drive is listed first in boot priority.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
DIY
OS
W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
CPU
Phenom II 1090T w/Noctua NH-D14 /**4400+ X2 w/CM Hyper TX 3
Motherboard
ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4/**A8N-SLI
Memory
2 x 2GB Patriot PGS34g1600LLKA/**4x1GB Corsair VS
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA GTX460 SC/**EVGA 8800GTS
Sound Card
Asus Xonar D2X/**Xonar D1
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer X233H, Dell E152FPc /**LG M237-WD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080 & 1024x768/**1980x1080
Hard Drives
WDC 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB, 500GB,Seagate 500GB , Maxtor 80GB /**500GB Seagate & WDC 1TB Black
PSU
CM RS600 w/ APC BX1000G/**Antec 500 TP w/ APC BX1000
Case
HAF922/**Antec 1040IIB
Cooling
3x200mm, 1x140 and 1x120mm/**5x80mm fans
Keyboard
Logitech Media USB/**Saitek Eclipse
Mouse
Cordless Trackman Wheel/**Ditto
Internet Speed
3.3Mbps
Other Info
SB 560 5.1 w/ Sennheiser RS140/**Creative T20 speakers, Dvico FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Cisco E3000, HP 5510V AIO, Linksys E3000, Belkin F5U237 hub and **F5D8055 adapter
(** = 2nd rig)
Ive done that, and it still gives the disc boot error.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
What is the BIOS Boot order?

It should be set to the installed Hard drive, then CD/DVD drive, then whatever else it is capable of, such as USB, removable drives, network boot etc.

Make sure no usb external or flash drives, or memory cards in slots are attached.

If no bootable media is then found, do a startup repair from a windows 7 DVD.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer 7520, Packard Bell dot se, Acer travelmate 2423
OS
Win 7 Ult + Starter, XP Pro +Home, 2kAS, Linux Mint 8, SuperOS
CPU
AMD 64 Athlon X2 , Intel Atom N450, Intel Celeron M 1.50 Ghz
Motherboard
Acer Fuquene
Memory
2.5GB ; 1GB; 2GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GeForce7000m; Intel; Intel
Sound Card
Realtek AC57
Monitor(s) Displays
17" ;10.1"; 19"
Screen Resolution
1440x900;1024x600;1440x900;
Hard Drives
WD 80, WD 320;
PSU
19v
Case
Laptop
Cooling
Air
Internet Speed
9.7Mb/s down 0.99Mb/s up
Other Info
ISP VIRGINMEDIA 10M cable broadband - D-Link DIR615 wireless router, 3Com OfficeConnect ASDL router used as wireless extender switch
The only boot order that allows me to boot into my OS is if the optical drive is first, AND if the windows XP disc is in the drive. Bear in mind, I do not boot from the disc. It has to detect the disc then it will boot into my HD OS without the disc read error.

Since I installed windows 7 from a downloaded .exe from school I dont have a windows 7 repair option. :/
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
I'm not going to get into the boot repair aspect of this, because I never use an installation that creates a boot menu, so that I will leave to someone else. However, for future reference, I would highly recommend that when installing multiple OSs, if you have a spare drive for the new OS, as you did for this, that you disconnect the old drive and install the new OS on the new drive, then reconnect the old drive and OS afterward. This will eliminate the boot menu, and all problems associated with it...like now. With this design, instead of using a boot menu created by the OS, you use F8, F1 or ESC as designed on the first screen of your BIOS run, to choose a hard drive to boot to, rather than an OS.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
DIY
OS
W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
CPU
Phenom II 1090T w/Noctua NH-D14 /**4400+ X2 w/CM Hyper TX 3
Motherboard
ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4/**A8N-SLI
Memory
2 x 2GB Patriot PGS34g1600LLKA/**4x1GB Corsair VS
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA GTX460 SC/**EVGA 8800GTS
Sound Card
Asus Xonar D2X/**Xonar D1
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer X233H, Dell E152FPc /**LG M237-WD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080 & 1024x768/**1980x1080
Hard Drives
WDC 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB, 500GB,Seagate 500GB , Maxtor 80GB /**500GB Seagate & WDC 1TB Black
PSU
CM RS600 w/ APC BX1000G/**Antec 500 TP w/ APC BX1000
Case
HAF922/**Antec 1040IIB
Cooling
3x200mm, 1x140 and 1x120mm/**5x80mm fans
Keyboard
Logitech Media USB/**Saitek Eclipse
Mouse
Cordless Trackman Wheel/**Ditto
Internet Speed
3.3Mbps
Other Info
SB 560 5.1 w/ Sennheiser RS140/**Creative T20 speakers, Dvico FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Cisco E3000, HP 5510V AIO, Linksys E3000, Belkin F5U237 hub and **F5D8055 adapter
(** = 2nd rig)
I am with you on that one seekermeister, and I would have completely pulled the old drive out. But my windows 7 install is an .exe file and not a boot disc. :/
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
I believe that you could have burned an installation disc with that .exe. Not exactly sure how, since it has been quite a while since I did so.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
DIY
OS
W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
CPU
Phenom II 1090T w/Noctua NH-D14 /**4400+ X2 w/CM Hyper TX 3
Motherboard
ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4/**A8N-SLI
Memory
2 x 2GB Patriot PGS34g1600LLKA/**4x1GB Corsair VS
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA GTX460 SC/**EVGA 8800GTS
Sound Card
Asus Xonar D2X/**Xonar D1
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer X233H, Dell E152FPc /**LG M237-WD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080 & 1024x768/**1980x1080
Hard Drives
WDC 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB, 500GB,Seagate 500GB , Maxtor 80GB /**500GB Seagate & WDC 1TB Black
PSU
CM RS600 w/ APC BX1000G/**Antec 500 TP w/ APC BX1000
Case
HAF922/**Antec 1040IIB
Cooling
3x200mm, 1x140 and 1x120mm/**5x80mm fans
Keyboard
Logitech Media USB/**Saitek Eclipse
Mouse
Cordless Trackman Wheel/**Ditto
Internet Speed
3.3Mbps
Other Info
SB 560 5.1 w/ Sennheiser RS140/**Creative T20 speakers, Dvico FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Cisco E3000, HP 5510V AIO, Linksys E3000, Belkin F5U237 hub and **F5D8055 adapter
(** = 2nd rig)
Borrow a disk from a friend?

Google the following?

making windows 7 iso from enterprise exe
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Acer 7520, Packard Bell dot se, Acer travelmate 2423
OS
Win 7 Ult + Starter, XP Pro +Home, 2kAS, Linux Mint 8, SuperOS
CPU
AMD 64 Athlon X2 , Intel Atom N450, Intel Celeron M 1.50 Ghz
Motherboard
Acer Fuquene
Memory
2.5GB ; 1GB; 2GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GeForce7000m; Intel; Intel
Sound Card
Realtek AC57
Monitor(s) Displays
17" ;10.1"; 19"
Screen Resolution
1440x900;1024x600;1440x900;
Hard Drives
WD 80, WD 320;
PSU
19v
Case
Laptop
Cooling
Air
Internet Speed
9.7Mb/s down 0.99Mb/s up
Other Info
ISP VIRGINMEDIA 10M cable broadband - D-Link DIR615 wireless router, 3Com OfficeConnect ASDL router used as wireless extender switch
Burning the disc off now. Just run the startup repair? Any special or extra steps I should know?
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit
You need an ISO to burn to DVD with ImgBurn at 4x speed, or using Windows Image Burner, to run repairs or reinstall.

In fact you need to boot it now with all other HD's unplugged to make sure Win7 partition is marked Active, then from System Recovery Options run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times to write the System boot files to the Win7 partition..

To make your iso, extract the files from the .exe to your desktop, then compile the files into an .iso using this tool: BootISOmaker - Windows 7 Forums

After complaints that the Student Steal fulfiller didnt' provide an ISO, MS also made good here: Microsoft Fixes Windows 7 Student Edition Upgrade Problems - Windows 7 student edition - Gizmodo
 
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