Satelite L300 wont boot on HD when there's no boot disk

The hard disk (HD) of my Satelite L300 crashed so I had to replace it and unfortunately I can't find my reco disks. I did manage to get my hand on a Vista OEM and managed to install that on the laptop with out any problem. However the laptop won't boot on the HD, even though if is the first boot device, but it will boot if there is a boot CD on the CD/DVD drive. The laptop won't boot on the HD but will read the CD and say "Press any key to boot from CD". I won't press a key and the laptop will process to boot from HD. I can use the laptop as normal.
On the BIOS setup, the first boot device is the HD then the CD drive. I checked the disk management and it said that the HD is active and healthy.
Is there a driver I have to install before VIsta? Where can I get it?

Something is wrong with the operating system on the hard drive. The hard drive is being seen correctly in the Bios and is the first boot device, but it is only booting from the CD, so there has to be something wrong with the installation of the operating system. I would try installing the operating system again and see if that fixes it. If not, try a different copy of the operating system or maybe a different operating system entirely. Like XP or Linex. If all of those fail, I would be concerned about the new hard drive. Was the new hard drive the same as the one it replaced? Some of the new hard drives spin faster and are much larger than the originals and may cause problems for the computer.

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