Reboot requires CD

S

Steelerfan

I am having a problem with WinXP Home edition. Whenever
I reboot it always asks for a CD and won't boot without
one. When I put the CD in, it asks me to press a key to
boot from CD, if I let that go by, it does in fact boot
from the hard drive. I have already checked BIOS and I
have the following as the boot order: Hard drive,
floppy, CD-ROM. I have also virus scanned and found
nothing. I think I read once that this might be related
to a Service Pack bug where Microsoft said to replace
two 'ntkrnl*.*' type files from the Windows CD which only
temoraily works. I have tried to locate the KB article
on the Microsoft website but I can't find it anymore.

In terms of drives installed, I have one hard drive as
the master and CD-ROM on primary channel, CD-RW drive as
master and zip drive as slave on the secondary channel.

Please help!
 
G

Guest

Check this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogo
If you see a value "SFCScan" set to "1", then set it to "0".
 

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