Summary: One easy way is to use your CMOS BIOS setup. Often it allows you to select the drive to boot from. HD-0, HD-1, etc. as the second boot drive. If you d...
Summary: I just installed a 30GB hard drive, to a 3GB compaq presario, the new drive is labeled D:/, I am having trouble turniung this drive into my boot drive...
Summary: Microsoft® Word for Windows™ ® Version: 6.0 Product Support Services Subject: How to Optimize the Performance of Word 6.0 Application Note 5/94 * ...
Summary: All you need to make a computer not boot from a floppy is a hard drive with the settings set correctly in the cmos and the OS system files. If you hav...
Summary: OOps. sorry for posting this in Zacks forum. I have 2 hard disks on my comp, pri and sec master. I use the first for dos/windows, and the second, linu...
Summary: Boot order is determined by the hardware connections to the floppies, mainly the cabling, as Ronin mentions. You only change it in the BIOS (on older...
Summary: If you already have NT installed, and want to add MS-DOS 5 or newer, make sure your boot drive is fat, and no larger than 2G. make sure your repair di...
Summary: Dve, I'm not sure what the problem is. Just use FDISK to create the partitions you need. (By the way, there are other partitioning tools available, ...
Summary: F5 & F8 are functions of DOS6 - not the bios. Either you need a 5¼ boot floppy (or a boot drive switcher, like bboot) and/or the setup floppy for that...
Summary: I used to have an IDE Iomega ZIP100 Drive that could indeed be setup as the primory 'Boot' Drive. The internal ZIP drives connect to an IDE channel a...
Summary: What does CMOS have for boot sequence? It may have only A: drive as a boot drive, or A: then your CDROM. In other words, make sure it has A: then C:...
Summary: You can swap A and B diskette drives under dos but C being the hard disk boot drive letter, it is out of question.These programs exist in the Garbo ar...
Summary: Changing the boot drive from CMOS might not be an option on older machines. Floppies aren't jumpered as 'master & slave' (afaik) - depends on the phys...
Summary: Thanks a lot, the FDISK partitioning worked, but my HD still won't boot. I checked my BIOS settings and no problems there. I can run MSD, and it says ...
Summary: Download and use the Maxblast bootable diagnostic diskette for your Maxtor hard drive.Run the tests and follow on screen recommended corrective measur...
Summary: I am not sure what's wrong from what you said; however, some general things may help: You get garble if you put 2.88 in the BIOS for drive A: an...
Summary: The easiest way to do it is to hardcode the drive letter of the CD ROM with the MSCDEX command. Usually some good letters to use are anything above l...
Summary: I have been trying to create a Booting USB Flash Drive. I have been ale to get everything running but after I run the USBASPI.SYS I am not longer able...
Summary: Microsoft® Word for Windows™ ® Version: 6.0 Product Support Services Subject: How to Optimize the Performance of Word 6.0 Application Note 5/94 * ...
Summary: Well, what's stopping you from getting a bootdisk and trying?? The A: drive is the boot drive, so you'd need to create the appropriate floppy disk. I...
Summary: make sure this line is in your config.sys device=himem.sys this is assuming himem.sys exists in the root directory of the boot drive.. HTH, Michael ...
Summary: I have my boot drive ghosted onto another of my hard drives as well as oto cd, i usually back upo about every month or so, It saved my ass on a couple...
Summary: Just to clarify: You cannot change the boot drive merely by going into the BIOS (at least not on the machine in question). To do that, you'll need to ...
Summary: There's a patch (3xstart.exe) to coax Win3xx to get along with Win98DOS should read "There's a patch (3xstart.exe) to coax Win95c/98/98se inbuilt DOS ...
Summary: If the goal is to cut the drive, and move the files up front, and you are certain XP is running fat32 not NTFS, then just put the drive in a 98SE mach...
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