Windows 7 – “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter” Fix

The Problem

I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a brand new SATA hard drive. I have another SATA HDD as well as a smaller EIDE (PATA) hard drive inside my machine. After rebooting, I recieved a message saying “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter.” I thought that somehow the bootloader got messed up because my other SATA HDD had Vista on it, so I booted to the Windows 7 installation DVD and ran the startup repair tool, as well as running the command prompt commands “bootrec.exe /FixMBR” and “bootrec.exe /FixBoot.” I restarted and still recieved the same error.

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