re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 1:50 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dewey Nelson (231 messages posted) Hi Again, I had thought about swapping the cables, but being a stickler for what's the real cause (it worked before why not now) I did not swap the cables. You motivated me to do that--quite a trick with the twisting of the flat cable, but I still had the same problem. So, I thought it worked with the original hard drive, but not now, so what's the difference? I had jumpered the new hard drive the same way as the old hard drive and sure enough it was my new C;\ drive, but would not boot. I thought, it must be the new hard drive and the only thing I could do was choose different pins to jumper. So I did jumper the next set of pins over and the drive remained my C:\ drive and booted as well. :-)))) It sure is discouraging--not only did I waste a lot of my time, but I wasted your's and Drive Imagine's time too. Thanks a mil for sticking with me--without this sounding board I'd be lost. Dewey On Friday, January 7, 2005 at 5:59 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|mine was and still is listed as: >|1) Check A:; 2) check CD; and 3) check Hard Drive. >| Dewey Nelson >| >You're wasting time at boot spinning the floppy drive and the CD drive. >Now that you know how to change it when necessary >(and change it back), set it to HDD only. > > >|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 [doing] all the work >|and recording all the new info. >| >We're talking about 2 physical drives >--not 2 partitions on the same hard disk. Right? > >Swap the cables to the 2 HDDs. Written in response to: re: Fed-up is talking about *Boot Precedence* (gewg_: Friday, January 7, 2005 at 5:59 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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