Re: Booting to D
- From: "Bill" <smile@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:53:26 -0400
What is the "problem" to which you refer when you
write "I believe the problem started..."? Is it booting
with the "D:" partition?
YES - I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT HAD TO BOOT TO C
Is it having a shortcut with "D:" as the root?
YES - IF IN FACT IT IS A PROBLEM
BTW, who is the motherboard
manufacturer, or if you know, who wrote the BIOS?
IT IS A DELL PENTIUM 4 XPS GEN 5
Are the installed programs on the 2 OSes
significantly different (i.e. why 2 OSes?)
C AND D ARE TWO SEPARATE HARD DRIVES
ORIGINALLY I USED D AS A CLONE OF C FOR BACKUP
NOW THEY ARE REVERSED
ALL WORKS FINE -
THANKS FOR THE REPLY
I MAY BE THE PROBLEM HERE
*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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