Is there a way that i can boot up from a hard drive that is connected to the motherboard as the second ide. Normally motherboards have a connection to a hard drive and a connection to a cd-rom drive, i would like to set up the other hard drive and put it where the cdrom is. Can this be done?
2007-02-25 09:35:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Pc's only boot from the primary hard drive. which is drive C you can go into your bios and change the boot to a floppy (older machines) or the CD rom.
2007-02-25 09:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jack F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You will simply need to go into the boot options found in your Bios and set the primary boot device to secondary IDE. The bios is the initial screen you see when you turn on your pc, and can usually be entered by hitting F1 or Delete when you see the screen.
2007-02-25 17:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first or second ide doesn't matter. you just go in the bios and change the boot settings.
2007-02-25 17:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋