"CD IS ONLY BOOTABLE" message not go away even aft

[crashnburn]

Red & Black in Color (Screenshot to be posted)

"CD IS ONLY BOOTABLE" message not go away even after removal

Upon clicking it several times couple of hours later.

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Windows - No Disk
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There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:.
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Cancel Try Again Continue
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[egibbs]

Sounds like a HDD failure to me. Do you have another machine you can stick that drive in as a secondary drive? If so you might get lucky and be able to copy off some of the data.

Ed Gibbs