do you know which one is a hard disk drive or ideo. i bought this book about hacking windows xp, i want change the boot order of the drives. i pressed f2 when the logo came on then i got into the bios screen. there where all of these words like USB FDD:, IDE HDD: FUJITSU MHT2040AH-CPM), USB HDD:, IDE CDROM: SONYCD-RW/DVD ROMCRX830E-CSM, PCI LAN: Broadcom MBA. i don't understand it, i even searched google and couldn't understand it. the book said i had to put the hard disk drive at the top of the list. can anyone help me with this? i need this compooper technological stuff dumbed down for me.
2006-06-17 10:57:45 · 8 answers · asked by :) 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
HDD: FUJITSU MHT2040AH-CPM), is your Hard disk Drive This is a pice of hardware inside your computer that stores all your information Basically the brain of the computer.
IDE CDROM: SONYCD-RW/DVD ROMCRX830E This is your Cd rom drive, this is where you place your cd
2006-06-17 11:02:31 · answer #1 · answered by toyota_ch1ck 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HDD stands for hard drive. In this case the computer has identified FUJITSU MHT2040AH-CPM as your active hard drive so put it first in the boot order. After you are finished setup you may wish to go back in and reset the primary to CDROM so you can boot from CDs should the need arise.
2006-06-17 11:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by martin b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off playing with your bios can be very bad if you don't know what your doing. I would reccomend your read up a lot more until you understand it before you change things.
As for changing the boot order, it depends on which bios and version you have.
Mine has a screen similar to this one.
http://www.avault.com/hardware/images/leadtekwinfast12.jpg
By arrowing down to the First Boot Device I can press Pgdn and Pdup to change to order, usually you haveHard drive, CD Rom, then network if you have one...
2006-06-17 11:07:33 · answer #3 · answered by Gehan G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure F2 is what you are looking for. On my computer it is F10. You need to get to the setup screen. You can change the boot order from there.
and can chk what you have in you computer . all info about cyour computer even a single port :P
2006-06-17 12:24:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure F2 is what you are looking for. On my computer it is F10. You need to get to the setup screen. You can change the boot order from there.
2006-06-17 11:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by AlphaFemale 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are pretty computer illiterate, why do you want to do this to your computer. Leave this to the people who understand computers before you hand out with an expensive boat anchor instead of a computer.
2006-06-17 11:02:28 · answer #6 · answered by starting over 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IDE HDD is your harddirve, something also known as IDE0 (zero) or HDD0 (zero), if you choose this as your first bootable device, it will boot directly from the harddrive first.
2006-06-17 11:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get the book? Please email me.
dan_c_see@yahoo.com
p.s. I can't answer your question sorry.
2006-06-17 11:01:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋