XP Nuisance!

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XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is, that when
its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!! CD's, floppies,
are not allowed!!
This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD installed.
Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
 
backinblack said:
XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is, that
when
its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!! CD's, floppies,
are not allowed!!
This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD installed.
Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
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Boot options are set in the system BIOS. Most systems are configured
(obviously) to boot from the hard drive first, then some other drive such as
the floppy (if one is installed in the system) and then an optical drive.
 
Open your BIOS and set the bootable drive
order to your desired boot order.

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| XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is, that when
| its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!! CD's, floppies,
| are not allowed!!
| This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD installed.
| Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
| --
| Life''s a journey. Enjoy the ride!!!!
 
'backinblack' wrote, in part:
| XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is, that
when
| its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!! CD's, floppies,
| are not allowed!!
_____

How were you expecting to boot-up to Windows XP from a floppy?
Is the CD bootable? And if so, to what operating system?
Is the BIOS set to choose other than the hard drive as the boot device?

Phil Weldon

| XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is, that
when
| its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!! CD's, floppies,
| are not allowed!!
| This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD installed.
| Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
| --
| Life''s a journey. Enjoy the ride!!!!
 
backinblack said:
XP will always boot up faithfully, which is good!! The bad news is,
that when its on the HD, that is all I am allowed to boot up with!!!
CD's, floppies, are not allowed!!
This computer has an ASUS8N-VM motherboard, and a 200Gog WD HD
installed. Does anyone know how to correct this probem?
Click to expand...


This has nothing to do with Windows XP, nor with whatever operating system
you run.

What drive you boot from is controlled by your BIOS. The BIOS specifies the
order from which it tries to boot from the various devices you have
installed. You are obviously set to try to boot from the HD first, so if you
have an operating system installed there, that's the device it boots from.

There isn't really any problem to correct--some people prefer to leave the
HD first, except for the rare occasions when they may want another
choice--but if you want it to try other devices first (diskette drive, CD
drive, etc), go into the BIOS setup program and change the order there.
 
--
Life''''s a journey. Enjoy the ride!!!!


Ken Blake said:
This has nothing to do with Windows XP, nor with whatever operating system
you run.

What drive you boot from is controlled by your BIOS. The BIOS specifies the
order from which it tries to boot from the various devices you have
installed. You are obviously set to try to boot from the HD first, so if you
have an operating system installed there, that's the device it boots from.

There isn't really any problem to correct--some people prefer to leave the
HD first, except for the rare occasions when they may want another
choice--but if you want it to try other devices first (diskette drive, CD
drive, etc), go into the BIOS setup program and change the order there.
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"I have tried to adjust the BIOS, but it seems to ignore my requests insofar
as being able to boot from a floopy in order to upgrade it to being more
compatible with the new motherboard"

What are you trying to upgrade? BIOS?, Windows?
The floppy to upgrade bios is usually a dos bootable floppy, with the BIOS
utility and image for your exact motherboard.

Upgrading windows to work with a new motherboard is not for the faint
hearted, since XP is deliberately setup to not do this!
It's usually safer to do an install to a new HD, and then reconnect the
original HD as a slave. This allows recovery of user files.
You should make a backup before yo do anything along this line!

CD's that were burned from files downloaded from the internet were not
bootable, but that's another story, and yes I have tried to adjust the BIOS,
but it seems to ignore my requests insofar as being able to boot from a
floopy in order to upgrade it to being more compatible with the new
motherboard.
 
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