What should I do when my PC stops at "press any key to boot from cd"?

Depending on your model of motherboard there is a setting in bios that lets you choose bootup priority. Set bootup device 1. as HDD0 (which would be your main hard drive) bootup device 2 :Cd-Rom bootup device 3:nothing or floppy

That should fix your problem. It sounds like your first bootup device is set to Cd-Rom. These settings in BIOS should be easy enough to find if you go through the different menus. In mine its under BOOT

The method you are using to repair this computer is sort of like sitting in the cockpit of a jet airplane and flipping every switch to "find the one that makes it fly."

And now you are asking "which switch do I hit to fix everything?" God only knows! What problem are you fixing? Blinking cursors? Is that bad? You were told (by whom?) to use fixboot bootcfg, chkdsk (you think a thing called "boot configuration" may somehow be related to a boot problem?) And "other things" for 5 hours? A linux disk to fix a windows system? Then you reset the cmos with battery and jumper? That wipes out the cmos configuration, you then need to reconfigure it.

I'm sorry I don't have a "fix" other than take the computer to someone who knows how to fix computers.

Good luck.

I know this is stupid, but did you try taking out the CD and see what happens?

Is it possible you installed a 2nd partition for linux when you installed linux and copied your new copy of windows onto that partition? It might be that it is booting to the old copy (or you just overwrote the bootloader) and it does not see the old partition to boot from...

I would recommend saving any files you have, and completely reformatting the hard drive, and putting a fresh install of windows on there.

You either have a cd in the drive or either your system is set to look for a cd when it first boots up. You can change these prefrences in the system bios at startup. Press F2 at startup and look for boot device order. Change it to boot from hard drive first and this will fix your problem. Save and exit. Do not change anything else though while you are there. Just remember, if you ever want to boot from a cd, you will have to change this option back. I hope this helps!

You have to install windows just like you did, however when you restart the pc, take out the CD from the drive. The installation should still continue where it left off.

Have you tried taking out the CD and see if it continues then?

try to boot from your HDD first

you can change the boot priority on BIOS screen,

remove boot from cd rom and try

if still can't update your BIOS, if it still error remove your cd drive

if it can work, means it's your CD ROM drive, if it still can't I think it's the mother board

If you have finished the Windows (re)Installation then you should have removed the CD.

you said you used the linux cd, i don't know what to say about you question but just install linux is much better that windows.

boot it then whats wrong with that?