remove disks or other media press any key to restart

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Published on 2012-11-27T21:57:39Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 23:10 UTC
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I'm having an issue regarding a disk imaging process.

I have a WinPE image that will re-partition, the hard drive, and put a boot-able image on it.

When I run the imaging process from an initial state, I get the following error

remove disks or other media 
press any key to restart

If I run the process subsequent times, It will work as desired, but I'm still interested in getting the process to work the first time.

How do I figure out what's going on here? what should I be looking at? I'm a little bit out of my depth here, I don't know what to do next

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