Boot up order ?

jamjar · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:45

Hi All , I want to know something to do with the boot up of the system ,what should the order of boot up be ? ie 1st DVD 2nd HDD etc ?

kmistry · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:48

When your installing windows you need it to be Floppy (if you have one), then CD ROM, HDD, then floppy. I have mine on CD-ROM, Hard drive, then floppy, even though I don't have a floppy drive (though this is rarely an issue nowadays!)

So I would say

1. DVD/CD ROM (your main one (i.e. the master)
2. Hard drive (main again i.e. master)
3. other hdd (if you have one, or floppy)

Cupra · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:48

i hate waiting so mines 1 hdd, 2,3,4 are all disabled

kmistry · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:50

Or if you dont like waiting, then put your Hdd as first (i.e. the one with the windows install!) like Paul_64l said!

Dingleberry88 · 18 Apr 2007 at 14:11

paul_64l said:
i hate waiting so mines 1 hdd, 2,3,4 are all disabled

Yep. Unless you actually want to boot from a disc, just put the HDD first and disable everything else.

IAmATeaf · 18 Apr 2007 at 14:13

Main OS HD as first, everything else disabled for me.

chaosophy · 18 Apr 2007 at 14:36

Yep same as above. unless I actually need to boot from something else my os hdd is always first in the queue with the rest disabled. I also try to have as little as possible set to 'auto' in the bios to try and speed up booting.

jamjar · 18 Apr 2007 at 16:48

kmistry said:
When your installing windows you need it to be Floppy (if you have one), then CD ROM, HDD, then floppy. I have mine on CD-ROM, Hard drive, then floppy, even though I don't have a floppy drive (though this is rarely an issue nowadays!)

So I would say

1. DVD/CD ROM (your main one (i.e. the master)
2. Hard drive (main again i.e. master)
3. other hdd (if you have one, or floppy)

thanks for that ,i have 2 SATA II hard drives Will i need to use the pins on the back to state which is master and slave ? :confused:

Dingleberry88 · 18 Apr 2007 at 16:50

Nope. SATA uses seperate channels so master/slave doesn't apply.

Will_3rd · 18 Apr 2007 at 16:54

jamjar said:
thanks for that ,i have 2 SATA II hard drives Will i need to use the pins on the back to state which is master and slave ?

nope not needed for SATA drives as they have their own channels, might have to remove the jumpers to get them running at 3Gbps

did it recently on my Seagate drive as I forgot to do so after installing it