Urgent help: VMware workstation 8: Unable to boot OS without USB disk

[nRiTeCh]

I dont have a dvd rom/rw nor i have any ISO file of any OS.

So I created a bootable USB pen drive from my office to be able to install server 2008 on VMware workstation 8.

Installation etc all went good.

But now whenever i want to load the OS in vmware, i always have to plugin that bootable usb drive else it wont boot. It will stukc and loop at network pxe loading screen.
Went into vm bios and did required settings but no good.

On pendrive it has created BOOTSECT.BAK file.

I want it to boot without the pendrive.

In the vm machines settings i removed the pendrive(physical harddisk option) and just kept the .vmdk virtual disk but it still doesnt help.

Please help guys.

 

[redhatperl]

First thing is instead of creating USB pen drive, you could have just copied the ISO file to pen drive and then used it in Vmware. If that's not the case, then you can convert the pen drive to ISO using any tool like Power ISO or Ultra ISO. Now looking at the situation here, it seems like your OS is not installed correctly.. What if you create a new VM and use your current VMDK file in that VM guest and try to boot?