Summary: Well, the thing is: I have 2 hd's in my pc, one with the OS (XP PRO) and the other one is the slave, just for files. The problem is that the hd with t...
Summary: thats wat i did, my new hd is primary master and my old one is slave. the 2hds have exact same copies because i copied one to another, what i want is...
Summary: On a new Gateway Desktop. BIOS is correct to boot from CD CD is fine. Other computers WILL boot from the CD. I have also swapped out the CD Drives.....
Summary: i assembled a computer with a 80 GB HD, 256 MB RAM, Socket 7 Pentium MMX processor. i partitioned the HD and installed windows 98 and windows 2003 ser...
Summary: Hi I have a harddisc where it is impossibel to boot from. I can boot from floppy. I have tried DOS 5.02 and format c: /s, and it was completed without...
Summary: I have recently become more interested in a quandry that's been bouncing around in my head. I am currently running a pc with windows xp but would lik...
Summary: Hi, I have problem with boot up from old HD that works perfect on old machine. Actually, I have two HD and two machines. I installed win 2003 on the ...
Summary: Is it possible to boot from the second hard drive? I was thinking about installing windows 98 and 2000 (maybe linux too) on this older system and I w...
Summary: can anyone help me? my floppy drive works perfectly in windows, it reads and writes-But i cannot boot from it. I have years of experiance building pcs...
Summary: Hello to all. This is my first post. My system: Biostar P4M800-M7a motherboard 1 Hitachi 160GB HD (IDE) Sony DVD-R Sony DVD-RW Recently purchased a n...
Summary: k guys i got into bio, turns out it was one of the other buttons, but now, the thing is, my bios is weird, its a 2001 laptop. so it doesnt have the a...
Summary: It does sound like the hard drive has bitten the bullet. This should not affect booting from the other drives. Have a look in bios and see if it is re...
Summary: i recently unplugged both my DVD-ROM, and DVD-RW, so i could temporarily install a hard drive i needed to copy some files from. after i was finished g...
Summary: Interesting stuff there. But I have serious doubts about this: "# Windows 98 or Windows ME These systems come with a set of boot files that are used ...
Summary: You are not BOOTING from your KBoard. That can't be done. You boot from a drive of some sort. You need your KBoard to work in the pre-windows mode....
Summary: Is it possible to boot from disk images? For example by using a boot floppy which then boots to the image. Operating systems such as QNX, Beos and Man...
Summary: Well, for starts, you should check the hdd's and make sure the master drive you want is selected manually on the drive (typically there is a two-prong...
Summary: I bought a used HP OmniPoint 300Mhz laptop with XP Pro installed. I want to reinstall XP Pro in order to start fresh - it had a lot of spyware, virus...
Summary: My laptop just gave up a few months ago. It cut out when I was using it, and I've not been able to boot it up since. It either gets half way through t...
Summary: i have sata hd operating system installed 2 dvd ide i add another ide hd to my computer and its cant boot from sata i guess its going to the ide hd wh...
Summary: Hello, This problem is the culmination of many months of frustration. My grandpa (who is very computer literate) was planning to run a dual install...
Summary: There is a contradiction to their advice because your did not state your problem very clear enough. Jordan said it will not work(what he meant is, i...
Summary: I have no option in the BIOS Setup to boot from a CD-ROM. If I use the Windows XP startup disk option to boot from the CD, will it allow me to install...
Summary: For some reason, my new SOYO dragon lite will not boot from the cd drive or any pci devices (scsci, ideraid). Tried multiple cd drives/cd's, but will...
Summary: The MB Wont reconise a primaster master or a secondary master, Just primary slave and secondary slave. The HD I put in has 2k on it, With a diffrent c...
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