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| 238478 | 2004-05-22 04:44:00 | Hi Folks. Running XP Pro. Some time ago upgraded from 98SE and then later started again with a clean install. My system does not seem to address my floppy while starting up. My lovely (expensive) Ghost boot disks etc go unnoticed. Under 98SE similar disks were clearly identified, so XP Pro has changed by BIOS settings. They currently show: 1st boot device: IDE-0 2nd boot device: floppy 3rd boot device: CD Rom SMART for hard drives: Enabled Boot up num-lock: on Floppy drive seek: disabled. Is XP Pro happy for me to change the boot device priorities and if so, to what order??? Thanks |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 238479 | 2004-05-22 04:57:00 | all you need to do is change the floppy drive seek to enabled and then if yuo want to boot from the floppy change the 1st boot device to floppy. | kevinL (1785) | ||
| 238480 | 2004-05-22 07:17:00 | what do you mean by "address my floppy while starting up" ? does the floopy drive work at all ? the floppy seek is not really important (turning it off helps to speed up startup) for boot order it would be best to have 1st cdrom (because you would use your XP cd to boot from) 2nd ide-0 (tho i could be floppy IF you use any floppy boot disks) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 238481 | 2004-05-22 08:22:00 | Hi Kevin and tweak'e. Yes, the floppy drive works well for normal activities, copying files, etc. Ghost (and AVG) invited me to make a set of "Bootable System Disks/ Rescue Disks" with Ghost's set including support for USB, LPT and CD/DVD. They also suggested that the disks could be checked after completion by booting up with them inserted in the floppy drive, from where the system would boot from the floppy, etc. Seemed sensible to check that the system would see the floppy and boot from it. However, the system ignores the floppy and just boots as normal. The old 98SE system certainly did that with its own emergency boot disk. Hence the reason for checking order of BIOS settings. Appreciate any further advice or comment. Thanks. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 238482 | 2004-05-22 08:33:00 | Change 1st to floppy - 2nd to IDE 0, allthough it should not have been altered by installing XP - it does not do anything to the BIOS. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 238483 | 2004-05-22 08:38:00 | > changed by BIOS settings. They currently show: > 1st boot device: IDE-0 > 2nd boot device: floppy > 3rd boot device: CD Rom > SMART for hard drives: Enabled > Boot up num-lock: on > Floppy drive seek: disabled. > > Is XP Pro happy for me to change the boot device > priorities and if so, to what order??? Thanks Yep, you can change the order quite freely I use:- 1st boot : Floppy 2nd boot : CD Rom 3rd boot : IDE 0 So, on boot it checks the floppy, if none try CD, else boot from the HD Cheers R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 238484 | 2004-05-22 08:43:00 | Should have added, On boot it checks the drives in the order given, and boots the first OS it finds. Your original (?) setup checked the HD first, found XP, so never looked at the other sources. Clear now? (Like mud ?) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 238485 | 2004-05-22 20:46:00 | Thanks folks. Help appreciated. All fixed. Sorry for delay in getting back to you. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 238486 | 2004-05-23 02:49:00 | There is no problem with making the floppy the first boot option. If there's no floppy there, it will go down the list until it finds a bootable device. The main reason for making the floppy last (never found unless there's a disaster) is that when boot sector viruses were "popular", it was much safer to never try to boot from a floppy. Accidents happened. ;-) The first thing to occur when a floppy was there with a boot virus was infection of the hard disk. :_| |
Graham L (2) | ||
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