No Bootable Devices

I have clean installed Vista Business on Dell Laptop. It works fine as long
as Windows CD is in the drive. When I take out the CD and restart the
computer it says "No Bootable devices, press F1 to start from CD. Please
help. It just refuses to bootup from hard drive. I have reinstalled
everything 3 times so far.

Please, please help before I go mad.
--
Lee

If you can see the hard drive from BIOS, then the Master Boot Record is
messed up.
Try Vista BootPro: http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php

If you cannot see the hard drive from BIOS, then you may need to check your
cable connections.


"Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E8A8464C-6AA3-42C6-82AD-23BB0C8CC4BB@microsoft.com...
> I have clean installed Vista Business on Dell Laptop. It works fine as
long
> as Windows CD is in the drive. When I take out the CD and restart the
> computer it says "No Bootable devices, press F1 to start from CD. Please
> help. It just refuses to bootup from hard drive. I have reinstalled
> everything 3 times so far.
>
> Please, please help before I go mad.
> --
> Lee

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:18:01 -0700, Lee
<Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have clean installed Vista Business on Dell Laptop. It works fine as long
>as Windows CD is in the drive. When I take out the CD and restart the
>computer it says "No Bootable devices, press F1 to start from CD. Please
>help. It just refuses to bootup from hard drive. I have reinstalled
>everything 3 times so far.
>
>Please, please help before I go mad.

In BIOS setup, make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the correct hard
drive.

Thanks for your reply.

How do I check the hard drive from BIOS

Secondly I have downloaded vistabootpro. It seems very technical to me. What
am I supposed to do with it. I have tried to run it, but it has made no
difference, so far.

Please advise.
--
Lee


"Mark H" wrote:

> If you can see the hard drive from BIOS, then the Master Boot Record is
> messed up.
> Try Vista BootPro: http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php
>
> If you cannot see the hard drive from BIOS, then you may need to check your
> cable connections.
>
>
> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E8A8464C-6AA3-42C6-82AD-23BB0C8CC4BB@microsoft.com...
> > I have clean installed Vista Business on Dell Laptop. It works fine as
> long
> > as Windows CD is in the drive. When I take out the CD and restart the
> > computer it says "No Bootable devices, press F1 to start from CD. Please
> > help. It just refuses to bootup from hard drive. I have reinstalled
> > everything 3 times so far.
> >
> > Please, please help before I go mad.
> > --
> > Lee
>
>
>