it may listen, then call home for permission :-D not been a problem here fp
At 03:35 PM 9/25/2009, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with: >I had just gone into the BIOS and I can change the HD priority. If I do that, >does Windows listen? Or does it have its own mind about what drive it wants >to boot from? > >Steve > >Jamie Furtner wrote: >>Check your BIOS - my ASUS P5K lets me change the order of hard drives and >>optical drives. If you're given that option, that would be easiest. >>Jamie >>Steve Tomporowski wrote: >>>It's time to reinstall the OS, which will be either Vista or 7 and I'm going >>>to move the current boot drive to be storage only (I have some questions as >>>to its ability as a boot drive). So, the question becomes, what's the >>>easiest way to do this without having this drive still be the boot drive? >>>This is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and there are 8 SATA ports, 6 are labelled >>>SATA 2_0 through SATA2_5, two others are supposedly 3GB ports labelled >>>GSSATA2_0 and GSSATA2_1. Case is very crowded so I want to have to do as >>>little rewiring as possible, so can I add a drive to one of the unoccupied >>>GS ports and have it come out as the boot drive, or do I have to put the new >>>drive in the port from this drive? It would seem a shame if the boot drive >>>can't be a 3.0GB port. Manual is unclear here, I just want to make sure >>>that the old drive is not used by Windows for anything to do with boot. The >>>drive has too much info for me to just wipe right now. >>> >>>Thanks...Steve >>> >>> >>>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >>>database 4458 (20090925) __________ >>> >>>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >>> >>>http://www.eset.com >>> > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 4458 (20090925) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 4458 (20090925) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- If things improve with age, I'm nearly magnificent.
