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barrynfla

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22. October 2005 @ 08:03

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Good morning,

I'm a noob and having, I hope, a small problem. Thanks to the good people on the forum, I just installed a second hard drive on my PC as a slave (was from my old PC, which died). Everything is running okay except that when booting, I have to hit <esc> to get to the boot menu, and move the curser to the master HD. How do I go about setting it up so that it boots from the master automatically without going through this step?
Please, please, keep this as simple as possible as I'm an NOT well-versed in a lot of computer lingo.

TIA for any help,

Barry

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SparkeyNi

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22. October 2005 @ 14:27

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looking at your other post you stated that you set the jumper as cable select on the old drive, try setting it as a slave. it may be that your old drive still contains an os, this is maybe why you have to manually select a main drive during boot. if it works i suggest you copy what files you want across onto your main drive and the reformat your old drive.

http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorials/ss/DIYSecHD.htm

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borhan9

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22. October 2005 @ 18:47

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You may just need to go into bios again and change the sequence of ur booting and that should do it...

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barrynfla

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23. October 2005 @ 05:56

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Sparky....I changed to SL and got an error message "Disk read error." I could still boot, though, from the boot menu. I'm changing back to CS.

Borhan....I never went into bios before. I just set a restore point so I'm good to go but I don't even know how to get into bios, or what to do when I do get there.

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ddp

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23. October 2005 @ 09:20

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if not a name brand computer like hp/compaq than usually pressing del gets you into the bios.

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borhan9

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23. October 2005 @ 12:32

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@barrynfla

ddp is right most pc's u just have to press delete and it will take u to a screen that is blue and got all these menus in regards to your pc.

But as u said u just did it through restore point soo u should b sweet now...

or do u need more help??

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barrynfla

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23. October 2005 @ 15:44

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These Happy Dances are getting to be a habit!!! Since I have an HP, del didn't do me any good; however, F1 took me to the correct screen. I found Boot up at the top and changed the boot disc from the slave to the master. Man, I just love when things work!!!
Thanks to y'all for your help on this. I'm still working on a Norton problem (really just an annoyance) with a small pop-up at the lower right side of the screen about every two minutes. They sent me an e-mail and I'm trying to follow their instructions. I'll just keep working on it until this *^*(&*(*( pop-up disappears forever, never to be mourned.

Barry

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Deadrum33

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23. October 2005 @ 15:55

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@barrynfla
Didn't know I helped one problem and caused another!!! :)

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