Message "CD-ROM Boot Priority ..No Medium" [Moved from Virus/Trojan Help]

OtakuGirl · 07-22-2010, 01:58 AM

My computer was working fine yesterday and I had been working on a video when I needed to leave to go shopping, so I shut it down as I normally do when I leave the house. When I came home later, I turned it on to see the message "CD-ROM Boot Priority ..No Medium. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key". When I press a key, it repeats the same message, and I tried restarting it and it said the same thing. Someone I talked to said that it might be because the computer doesn't recognize the hard drive, and I'm wondering if it could be caused by some sort of virus due to something I downloaded, but I'm hoping that it's just a lose wire or something fixable. I had a lot of important documents on it and I was almost finished with that video, which I had spent countless hours on, and it would be terrible if I lost it all. If someone could help me fix this problem, I would be forever grateful.

**Ried** · 07-25-2010, 11:53 AM

Hello OtakuGirl,

By any chance did you leave a disk in the CD ROM drive? If so, remove it.

OtakuGirl · 07-26-2010, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Ried

Hello OtakuGirl,

By any chance did you leave a disk in the CD ROM drive? If so, remove it.

No, there isn't a disk in the computer. Hm.

**Ried** · 07-26-2010, 09:05 PM

I was going for the 'simple' reason for sometimes seeing that message. As I have no reason to suspect malware to be the cause of this, I'd be happy to move this thread to the proper support section, but you have not mentioned if this is Vista, Windows 7, or XP.

OtakuGirl · 07-27-2010, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Ried

I was going for the 'simple' reason for sometimes seeing that message. As I have no reason to suspect malware to be the cause of this, I'd be happy to move this thread to the proper support section, but you have not mentioned if this is Vista, Windows 7, or XP.

Oh, sorry, I have Vista. It does say that under my name, but I guess that's hard to notice.

**Ried** · 07-27-2010, 06:45 AM

I've found what it says under a user's name, isn't always the case.

Moving this thread to Vista Support for you, momentarily.

**i MaRk i** · 07-27-2010, 07:31 AM

This is before Windows starts, correct. If so one thing to try is go to your BIOS (the splash screen when you turn your computer will tell you how to get there. It will say something like: "BIOS/ BIOS setup/ setup") then go to the "boot" tab and place the HDD as the first boot device.

OtakuGirl · 07-28-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by i MaRk i

This is before Windows starts, correct. If so one thing to try is go to your BIOS (the splash screen when you turn your computer will tell you how to get there. It will say something like: "BIOS/ BIOS setup/ setup") then go to the "boot" tab and place the HDD as the first boot device.

Yeah, it is. And I have tried going to the BIOS setup, but the hard drive is already listed as the first boot device.

jcgriff2 · 07-28-2010, 04:08 PM

Hi -

Boot the system using your Vista DVD or using the HDD recovery partition. Once in recovery, select "Windows System Restore" - select a restore point prior to the incident.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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