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Windows 8 Boot Error Remove Disks - Please Help

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Ok let me explain my situation and hopefully someone smarter than me can tell me what to do.

I have a Samsung 700T (tablet) for work running Windows 8.1.

I connected via USB a HP Laser Jet 400 printer. After connecting I received an error. I researched it and found it was due to HP's Smart Install. The Tablet recognized the printer initially as a USB Mass Storage device and the drivers conflicted with it. Once I turned off the Smart Install on the Printer, everything loaded fine and printed fine. No problem here. HOWEVER!!! In My Computer, I showed a HP CD ROM as an accessible drive which was weird since I obviously didn't have a CD ROM hooked up. I figured it was due to the smart install. I didn't think anything of it and that it would clear itself since no CD or drive was present.

Fast forward,

I had to reboot my tablet to allow other updates to finish. Upon restarting I get the error "Remove Disks or other Media. Press any key to restart"

There is obviously nothing in/hooked up to my tablet so there is no media. I believe the OS is viewing the HP CD as still in the drive and is not proceeding to boot.

Please help. Note, I obviously can't load windows since it won't boot, so I don't believe I have any way of ejecting or deleting the CD or drive which has been suggested to me by about 5 people now.

P.S. I am familiar with BIOS but can't seem to find anything there to help me past this error.

Thanks!
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The HP Smart Install as I understand it, is from the HP CD
the drive now that the computer is attempting to boot from is the USB connected CD drive
HOWEVER you say you have never connected one, so I am a little puzzled as to this comment here

I obviously can't load windows since it won't boot, so I don't believe I have any way of ejecting or deleting the CD or drive which has been suggested to me by about 5 people now.
as there is NO CD to eject is there AND one was never connected was it.?

When the tablet first posts try pressing F12 and if that gets you into boot options, ensure the hard drive is what you are trying to boot from
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