Flashing cursor in left corner OR "No bootdisk has been detected or the disk has failed"

Works fine in safe mode but does this after a normal start up.
Any Ideas on what is wrong and what to do?

Hello @Scott-A330,
I understand that you are able to work in Safe Mode, but not on a normal Startup. I am providing you with an HP Support document: Using Microsoft System Configuration (Windows 7), which I would like you to use to disable all the non-Microsoft Services and all the Startup Items. I would like you to then start enabling them in groups and disable some in the last group once the issue re-occurs until you identify what is causing your issue.
Please re-post with the results. Thank you for posting on the HP Forums. Have a great day!
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