Windows will only boot if booting from CD drive with windows install disk and not from ssd Windows is installed on.

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This is a somewhat unusual problem. I built a friend a new pc and installed windows from a cd onto the PC's ssd. After shutting down the pc after setting up windows I removed the CD drive and proceeded to boot up the PC and it is stuck on the motherboard's logo screen and wont boot. We tried a couple times and even waited for 30 minutes and it didn't boot. I then re-attached the CD drive and booted from it and tried a windows repair. The repair wizard said nothing was wrong and it booted just fine. It seemed that the windows install on the ssd is just fine, but only if I boot from the cd drive

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