BIOS Boot Settings

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Rick Webb

Hi me again,
I have completed the transformation of my poorly operating PC to a fast and
dedicated Audio PC. With your help , I uploaded Service Pack 1 and the
Rollup 1 to my PC.
So, I'm pretty much set now, except I have one question.
" In the BIOS , what should be the correct Boot sequence" ? During the
formatting and re-installation of XP , I had set the 1st Boot Drive as
CD-ROM. Can I leave it there, or should I change it to Floppy or HD ?

Thanks
 
It makes no difference except for convenience. I leave it with the CD-ROM
first in line, the floppy second and the hard drive third. That way you
don't need to change each time you need to boot from a CD or a floppy disk.
NOTE: the system will look at those drives during bootup to see if a disk is
in the drive but finding none, it will proceed to the next listed bootable
device.
 
Thanks Michael

I think my Machine is ready to Rock. Hopefully no more problems.
Happy Times To You and All The Best

Rick
 
Oh, one more thing about the BIOS Boot Settings. In BIOS, I have a HD 00 /
HD 01/ HD 02 / HD 03 options. What one would be the Windows Boot Drive ?HD00
?
 
Uh, Rick, I don't know!

I have no idea on which drive XP is sitting or where the boot information is
being stored for that matter but you seem pretty happy with things so I
assume the system is booting? If yes, don't worry about it.
 
Yup, found it... HD - 0 is the first Hard Drive. and XP is sitting nicely on
that.
Thanks Again

Cheers
 
I do not know the make of your computer, but many [including Dell] set the
BIOS to boot (1) Floppy Drive, (2) CD-ROM Drive, (3) Hard Drive. If I were
you, I would setup exactly the same.
 
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