Hi Thomas,
Usually this happens when the boot sector is corrupted, or is pointing to
the wrong location. What are you using as a boot manager, where is the \boot
folder located, and which drive is active?
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Thomas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have installed Vista Ultimate from a 5-CD set on an IBM workstation w/
>dual
> 1GHZ P3 Xeon CPUs: no problem. Next to it is my IBM dual 2.8 P4 Xeon
> workstation that I also installed Vista Ult. on from the 5 discs. If I
> remove the #1 disk before shutting down, upon booting, after going through
> the SCSI set-up, I get a "Disc Error: Press Alt+Ctl+Delete and reboot".
> If I
> insert the disk before rebooting, it boots fine. If I do not, I get an
> infinite Alt+Ctl+D sequence. Any idea why the disc MUST be in my DVD
> drive
> and it will not boot from the SCSI hard drive? I am running 3- 73GB SCSI
> hard drives: 1 w/ Win 2K Pro; 1 w/ XP Pro; and the 3rd w/ Vista Ult. Only
> the Vista Ult. has this problem: each one is on a SEPARATE H.D. (no
> multiple
> partitions to deal with).
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> Thomas Peter v B