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Boot to wrong hard drive
Name: bwbishop Date: December 3, 2008 at 21:44:57 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD X2 - 3GB Ram Product: Home / BUILT
Comment:
Is there a way to force a mobo to boot to a certain hard drive? I have two hard drives. One has a working copy of windows, and the second has a corrupt copy that I'm trying to rescue data off of. When I boot the computer up, the mobo reads the corrupt copy and won't boot. If I unplug the corrupt hard drive, i can boot into my other one just fine. How do I force the mobo to boot onto the good copy of windows instead of the bad one?
Name: itguru Date: December 4, 2008 at 03:27:48 Pacific
Reply:
Change Boot Order in BIOS!
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: December 4, 2008 at 10:41:37 Pacific
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To expand on the response above. If these are IDE drives the first hard drive in the system is normally labeled as HDD0. The second is HDD1. You should be able to change the boot order to HDD1.
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Response Number 3
Name: aegis Date: December 4, 2008 at 14:27:18 Pacific
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I think it could also be the 'Boot.ini' file is set up to boot from the defective drive. It won't hurt to check:
Name: bwbishop Date: December 4, 2008 at 14:54:35 Pacific
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I'll look again at the BIOS, but I can't seem to find how to change the boot priority for a specific hard drive. I can put HDD before CD or Removable, but I can't find out to specify which HDD to boot first.
I'll look at the boot.ini when I get home.
Thanks for the help
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Response Number 5
Name: Gary Sun Date: December 5, 2008 at 07:25:32 Pacific
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IF YOU HAVE A WIN98 FLOPPY DISK, BOOT IT UP WITH THE DISK. WHEN A:/ PROMPT, TYPE FDISK, THEN GO TO OPTION 5 TO SELECT ACTIVE DISK, IN YOUR CASE HDD1, THEN RESTART THE SYSTEM. THAT SHOULD GIVE WHAT U WANT
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Response Number 6
Name: Gary Sun Date: December 5, 2008 at 07:27:50 Pacific
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OR AS SIMPLY AS CHANGE HDD0 FROM MASTER TO SLAVE AND VICE VERSA. THEN HDD1 SHOULD BE C: AND HDD0 BE D:, PROVIDED THAT 1 PARTITION ON EACH HDD.
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Response Number 7
Name: bwbishop Date: December 5, 2008 at 07:35:14 Pacific
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Thanks everybody. Between the boot file and my bios, I was able to solve my problem and save the files form my corrupt hard drive.
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