re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:03 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dewey Nelson (177 messages posted) Hi Guys, When I check the BIOS I find place where you can set the sequence of checking which drive to check in what sequence. So mine was and still is listed as: 1)Check A:\ Drive;2) check CD; and 3) check Hard Drive. However it doesn't say which hard drive and the computer checks my D:\ drive rather than my C:\. Once I'm up and running the C:\ drive is dong all the work and recording all the new info. Since I had used Drive Image 2002 to create a new bootable and larger hard drive I have asked them for help too, but so far no solutions. I'll keep trying on my own--you never know what I'll stumble on to!! Thanks for your interest!!!!! Dewey Message-ID: On Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:05 am, Fed-up wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (Fed-up: Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:05 am) Responses to this message: re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (gewg_: Friday, January 7, 2005 at 5:59 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Booting Without the Removable Hard Drive (Dewey Nelson: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 4:32 pm) re: Booting Without the Removable Hard Drive (Fed-up: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 5:02 pm) re: Booting Without the Removable Hard Drive (Dewey Nelson: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 5:11 pm) Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (gewg_: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 6:00 pm) re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (Fed-up: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 4:05 am) re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (Dewey Nelson: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 4:03 pm) re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (gewg_: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 5:59 pm) re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (Dewey Nelson: Sat, Jan 8, 2005, 1:50 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum