Hi, I've had to get a new hard drive and install my OS, the problem now is, I have to have the CD in the drive for it to boot up. I've check the booting setup and the priority boot is hard drive and secondary is CD drive, yet it wont boot unless the cd o/s is in. Can anybody please help.

Dave, January 2011

you need the disk to be a primary partition and you shouldnt mess with the jumpers, they will have been right. you ahvent got any other drives in have you, like an old one. if so disconnect until you are up and running, and do do vista, its not worth it.

Hengist the Nord, February 2011

vista a terrible op system,if i where you,i would change it to xp,

mm, February 2011

Hi T, I installed it from the start up where it says "press any key to boot from cd" and followed all the instructions, formatted hdd, so a complete new o/s installed, I've done this a few times on other pc's before but never had this trouble. I've tried moving the jumpers about, still the same. The hdd is a Western Digital WD1200, loaded with Vista Ultimate

Dave, January 2011

You have not properly installed the Operating System on the hard drive.

T, January 2011