Mac Mini Rom Drive

Every time I start my mac mini it looks for bootable disk in the dvd drive is there anyway to stop this, and should it even be doing this, it's pretty noisy

This might work:

System Preferences -> Startup Disk

If there is more than one volume there, click on the actual boot volume.

EDIT: I don't know that this will solve the problem actually: the Mac goes through a quick self-checkup whenever its turned back on and checking that the optical drive is present and functioning appears to be part of that. My alternative solution is: don't shut down your Mac so much -- just let it sleep instead. I only shut down my Mac about every three to six months, and that's only because of a system update or some such thing that requires a restart.

Ditto

This started when I installed boot camp on it didn't do it before. Is there a way that you can do a low level format on HD. I already went to sys pref and tried that didn't work but thanks for the input.
OK I'm breaking out O/S cd and reinstalling see if that works, will let you all know how it works,

OK OK OK I got her done and I fixed the mac too (lol lol lol) it seems the problem was in boot camp. I don't know maybe I installed it wrong whatever, did a low level which is included in the utilities program as your loading the O/S let it rip her 3 times and then did a reinstall. Now my mac mini runs better then before, and no more crunching of the drive on start up.
I wanna thank you all for the quick support.
NICE