Which drive should I be booting from?

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I use wxp. I have a cd and a cdw rom, a C (master) and D (slave) on my
computer.
I used to have an A drive that I used as a rescue disk for startup in w98.
I don't know if I need a rescue for wxp. After a while of installing wxp I
get the message that win is try to boot from my cd rom and it's a Failure.
The computer does boot after that though. Should I leave this option or
change the startup drive to C? I would just as soon leave it alone if it
doesn't bother anything, although I sometimes leave a disk in the cd drive
and the computer restarts...once, twice sometimes.
Thank you for your help.
 
mglatt said:
I use wxp. I have a cd and a cdw rom, a C (master) and D (slave) on my
computer.
I used to have an A drive that I used as a rescue disk for startup in
w98. I don't know if I need a rescue for wxp. After a while of
installing wxp I get the message that win is try to boot from my cd
rom and it's a Failure. The computer does boot after that though.
Should I leave this option or change the startup drive to C? I would
just as soon leave it alone if it doesn't bother anything, although I
sometimes leave a disk in the cd drive and the computer
restarts...once, twice sometimes.
Thank you for your help.
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It will not cause any problems other than as you have noticed; the
annoyance of asking if you want to boot from CD if there is one in the
drive. I leave mine permanently set to boot from the CD drive first;
that way if I should want to, there's no messing with the BIOS settings
each time. For instance, I have it set for a boot order of CD drive, A
drive, USB drive, C drive. It's a convenience and never a problem.

So if it's not a problem for you, it's not a problem for your computer;
nothing needs to be done.

HTH,

Twayne
 
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