Re: Booting to D

What is the "problem" to which you refer when you
write "I believe the problem started..."? Is it booting
with the "D:" partition? Is it having a shortcut with
"D:" as the root? BTW, who is the motherboard
manufacturer, or if you know, who wrote the BIOS?
Are the installed programs on the 2 OSes
significantly different (i.e. why 2 OSes?)

*TimDaniels*

"Bill" wrote:
OS = Windows XP Home SP2

I have 2 hds - C and D

In setup:
D = Drive 0 - SATA 0
C = Drive 1 - SATA 1

Control Panel - System - Device Manager shows the same thing

If I right click on a icon on the quick launch bar it shoes D as the location of the program. All seems to be working fine, but I am not sure booting to D is OK. I want to add a 3rd HD and put Windows Vista Beta 2 on it and use VistaBootPro to choose between systems. I thought it might be a good idea to get the C/D thing corrected before I add more drives.

I believe the problem started when I booted the machine with the cable to C disconnected, not on purpose. I have tried switching the cables at the motherboard and can boot to the welcome screen but it doesn't say "windows is starting" and goes no further.

Any ideas appreciated.
I have already yelled at myself and taken away my eating veggies privileges for a month<G>

Bill


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