Hard Drive boot up ?

jamjar · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:05

Hi All I have 2 Hard Drives (Seagate ) and want to put Windows Vista on one of them ,and use the other as a basic store drive .What i,m unsure of is regarding the boot up ,will i need to do anything to make it boot up the drive with Windows installed on ? or will it pick it up ? thanks :confused:

rpstewart · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:19

Windows will set the partition on which it's installed as active and hence bootable. What you do need to do however is ensure that that HDD is set as the first HDD in the BIOS boot order.

jamjar · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:53

thanks

rpstewart said:
Windows will set the partition on which it's installed as active and hence bootable. What you do need to do however is ensure that that HDD is set as the first HDD in the BIOS boot order.

Ok so what i need to do is go into the bios and change this ? :confused:

rpstewart · 16 Apr 2007 at 18:02

Yeah, you need to check what the boot order is before you start the install.

Personally I'd leave the storage drive disconnected until you've got Windows installed, if you have any external drives or card readers then disconnect these too. Then make sure that the boot order is DVD then HDD.