I don't get that. The problem is, if the HDD is first in the boot order,
it boots up on the HD, and doesn't allow you that immediate access to the
floppy - which was presumably your intent (assuming you have a floppy in
there). (The assumption again being, if you have a floppy in there at boot
time, you intended to boot up on the floppy for some repair or access or
restoration routines that you can't do in windows).
I mean, I never leave floppies in there "by accident" (or at least very
rarely), but even if you did, you'd catch in in time, and could reboot and
pull it out (if you're quick enough).
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:20:50 -0600, "Bill in Co."
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest: floppy, cd/dvd, hdd, in THAT order.
>
>
> My view is different. I think that the hard drive should be kept first
> in the boot order. I don't want the floppy or CD drive to be checked
> to boot from. I hardly ever want to boot from one of those, and if I
> do, I'll temporarily change the boot order then. I don't want to try
> to boot from a floppy or CD accidentally left in the drive. It will
> generate an error message if it's not bootable, but if it is bootable
> (especially a floppy) it could have undesired consequences. For
> example, although boot sector viruses are much less common these days
> than they used to be, it's always possible that one could turn up on a
> floppy. If the floppy is first in the boot order, and such a diskette
> has been left in the drive, you're infected.
>
>
>
>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>>> A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest
>>> doesn't matter.
>>>
>>> "slick1" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and
>>>> now
>>>> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not
>>>> sure
>>>> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is
>>>> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,
>>>> but
>>>> no
>>>> luck.
>>>> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:
>>>> - USB Key
>>>> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive
>>>> - Hard Drive
>>>> - USB Hard Drive
>>>> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive
>>>> - Network Drive
>>>> - USB Floppy Device
>>>>
>>>> My System: Acer 2450 laptop
>>>> Windows XP Home Edition SP2
>>>> Explorer 7
>>>>
>>>> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me
>>>> solve
>>>> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)
>>
>
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