PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable HELP NEEDED

My laptop has Vista Ultimate, and when I try to boot it, it gives error message
"PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable. PXE-MOF: Exiting "
And "insert the correct boot media and press any key"

Inserting the Vista Disk into the CD Rom drive and inserting the Ultimate boot disk into the CD Rom drive are of no avail.

What could be wrong? Before the crash I had suspected malicious code due to folders full of files forming on my computer's partitions and other strange behaviour and wiped clean one of my partitions and then deleted that partition using paragon (free version) partition manager. Upon restarting to complete the partition deletion the crash had occurred

 

Sounds like a corrupted filesystem at this point.

Check your boot order.

1. Disable network boot, that will get rid of the PXE messages.
2. Make sure your Disc drive is in the boot order, preferably first.


See if that gets you anywhere.