Re: XP Nuisance!
- From: "Chuck" <cdkuder@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:35:23 -0400
"I have tried to adjust the BIOS, but it seems to ignore my requests insofar
as being able to boot from a floopy in order to upgrade it to being more
compatible with the new motherboard"
What are you trying to upgrade? BIOS?, Windows?
The floppy to upgrade bios is usually a dos bootable floppy, with the BIOS
utility and image for your exact motherboard.
Upgrading windows to work with a new motherboard is not for the faint
hearted, since XP is deliberately setup to not do this!
It's usually safer to do an install to a new HD, and then reconnect the
original HD as a slave. This allows recovery of user files.
You should make a backup before yo do anything along this line!
"backinblack" <backinblack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Life''''s a journey. Enjoy the ride!!!!
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
backinblack wrote:
XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is,
that when its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!!
CD's, floppies, are not allowed!!
This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD
installed. Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
This has nothing to do with Windows XP, nor with whatever operating
theyou run.
What drive you boot from is controlled by your BIOS. The BIOS specifies
youorder from which it tries to boot from the various devices you have
installed. You are obviously set to try to boot from the HD first, so if
from.have an operating system installed there, that's the device it boots
the
There isn't really any problem to correct--some people prefer to leave
CDHD first, except for the rare occasions when they may want another
choice--but if you want it to try other devices first (diskette drive,
CD's that were burned from files downloaded from the internet were notdrive, etc), go into the BIOS setup program and change the order there.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Gentlemen, thank you very much for your replies!! As it turned out the
bootable, but that's another story, and yes I have tried to adjust the BIOS,
but it seems to ignore my requests insofar as being able to boot from a
floopy in order to upgrade it to being more compatible with the new
motherboard.
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