XP wont boot unless a bootable CD is present

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Bernie Adams

I have upgraded a machine from ME to XP Home.
I reformated the partion to NTFS and installed XP Home.
Installation went along without a hitch. XP re-booted a
couple of time during the install.

I checked in the bios to allow the first boot device to be
HDD-0.

When I re-boot the computer, a bootable disk cannot be
found. If I have the ethernet controller turned on, the
machine ends up in the netware boot.

If I leave the XP Home bootable Cd in the CD rom, the
system will stop and ask if I want to boot from the CD
rom. If I let the 'boot from CD' message time out, the
system boots just fine from the HDD.

Any suggestions?
 
Bernie, for the hell of it try setting the first boot device SCSI in the
Bios. See what happens.
 
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