re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence*
Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:05 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Fed-up
(219 messages posted)
Yep. I did it. *smacking head against table*
I have committed the unpardonable sin on help forums - assuing advanced knowledge
and as a result, giving a cryptic reply.
Okay, let's try again. Your computer has settings that are in the hardware, completely
independent of the operating system. There is a chip on your motherboard that holds
a very basic computer program that tells your hardware how to operate - without this
you'll never see Windows. (Well, that might not be a bad thing, but you'd never
see Linux, either! Now, THAT would be bad!)
This is called the Basic Input Output System, or BIOS. That's where you go when
you hit F2 - you get access to the BIOS settings. (Sometimes called CMOS, because
it's at the hardware, or chip, level.)
In those settings you can tell your computer to look for various boot devices, and
you can specify the order. A boot device is any drive that can contain bootable
information. That would include floppy drives, CD-ROMs, and hard drives.
If your main hard drive is not in that list, your computer won't boot from it. If
it's in the wrong order, it should still boot from it if there are no other bootable
drives available. For example, if your boot order is:
Floppy
CD-ROM
Hard drive
And there is no disk in the floppy drive or CD-ROM, you'll boot from the HD. (That's
the normal boot order, BTW.)
So check what your boot order is, and do come back and tell us what you find.
On Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 6:00 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>||Are you able to get into the BIOS?
>|| Fed-up
>||
>He means "Are you able to get into CMOS?"
>See below.
>
>||Perhaps the removable drive
>||is listed in the boot sequence ahead of your hard drive,
>||or perhaps your new HD is not recognized at all,
>||so it can't boot?
>||
>I think the boy is onto something there
>(though he didn't explain it so you could catch it).
>
>|After I boot with the removable hard drive in place,
>|my C:\ & D:\ hard drives are properly designated
>|as confirmed by the correct size listed.
>| Dewey Nelson
>|
>When the computer starts,
>there will be a message displayed that says something like
>**Hit F2 to enter Setup.**
>
>Do what it says.
>
>You will have to find the place in the CMOS configuration that specifies Boot Precedence
>(probably called something very different).
>Tell it to look at the C: drive FIRST when looking for an operating system.
>
>Fed-up is saying that C: isn't 1st on the list
>or maybe isn't on the list at all.
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