Boot Sequence Trouble

[Guest slick1]

My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google, but no

luck.

Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

- USB Key

- USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

- Hard Drive

- USB Hard Drive

- CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

- Network Drive

- USB Floppy Device

 

My System: Acer 2450 laptop

Windows XP Home Edition SP2

Explorer 7

 

I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me solve

this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest

doesn't matter.

 

"slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google, but

> no

> luck.

> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

> - USB Key

> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

> - Hard Drive

> - USB Hard Drive

> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

> - Network Drive

> - USB Floppy Device

>

> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

> Explorer 7

>

> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me solve

> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

[Guest Daddy]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

Hi slick,

 

Funny, I have a nephew like that.

 

There's no 'correct' boot order. It's a matter of choice.

 

Do you really have all that hardware? If not, may as well delete the entries for the hardware you don't have, so Windows won't go looking for it when its trying to find a boot loader.

 

A fairly typical boot order places an optical drive before the hard drive. This can be important in the event you can't boot your computer normally (i.e., from the hard drive), and have to boot instead from an 'emergency rescue' CD that is often part of your security software.

 

Daddy

 

"slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google, but no

> luck.

> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

> - USB Key

> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

> - Hard Drive

> - USB Hard Drive

> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

> - Network Drive

> - USB Floppy Device

>

> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

> Explorer 7

>

> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me solve

> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

>

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

I'd suggest: floppy, cd/dvd, hdd, in THAT order.

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest

> doesn't matter.

>

> "slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

>> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

>> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

>> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

>> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,

>> but

>> no

>> luck.

>> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

>> - USB Key

>> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

>> - Hard Drive

>> - USB Hard Drive

>> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

>> - Network Drive

>> - USB Floppy Device

>>

>> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

>> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

>> Explorer 7

>>

>> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me

>> solve

>> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

Unless you believe that your bios may become inaccessible for changes,

booting order should commence first from the hard drive is the most logical.

 

--

Dave

 

My vote in this primary was for the lesser

of many evils...

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

news:ewqTnljiIHA.6092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> I'd suggest: floppy, cd/dvd, hdd, in THAT order.

>

> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>> A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest

>> doesn't matter.

>>

>> "slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

>>> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and

>>> now

>>> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not

>>> sure

>>> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

>>> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,

>>> but

>>> no

>>> luck.

>>> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

>>> - USB Key

>>> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

>>> - Hard Drive

>>> - USB Hard Drive

>>> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

>>> - Network Drive

>>> - USB Floppy Device

>>>

>>> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

>>> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

>>> Explorer 7

>>>

>>> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me

>>> solve

>>> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

>

>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:20:50 -0600, "Bill in Co."

<not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'd suggest: floppy, cd/dvd, hdd, in THAT order.

 

 

My view is different. I think that the hard drive should be kept first

in the boot order. I don't want the floppy or CD drive to be checked

to boot from. I hardly ever want to boot from one of those, and if I

do, I'll temporarily change the boot order then. I don't want to try

to boot from a floppy or CD accidentally left in the drive. It will

generate an error message if it's not bootable, but if it is bootable

(especially a floppy) it could have undesired consequences. For

example, although boot sector viruses are much less common these days

than they used to be, it's always possible that one could turn up on a

floppy. If the floppy is first in the boot order, and such a diskette

has been left in the drive, you're infected.

 

 

> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> > A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest

> > doesn't matter.

> >

> > "slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> > news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

> >> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

> >> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

> >> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

> >> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,

> >> but

> >> no

> >> luck.

> >> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

> >> - USB Key

> >> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

> >> - Hard Drive

> >> - USB Hard Drive

> >> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

> >> - Network Drive

> >> - USB Floppy Device

> >>

> >> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

> >> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

> >> Explorer 7

> >>

> >> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me

> >> solve

> >> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

>

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

I don't get that. The problem is, if the HDD is first in the boot order,

it boots up on the HD, and doesn't allow you that immediate access to the

floppy - which was presumably your intent (assuming you have a floppy in

there). (The assumption again being, if you have a floppy in there at boot

time, you intended to boot up on the floppy for some repair or access or

restoration routines that you can't do in windows).

 

I mean, I never leave floppies in there "by accident" (or at least very

rarely), but even if you did, you'd catch in in time, and could reboot and

pull it out (if you're quick enough).

 

 

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:20:50 -0600, "Bill in Co."

> <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote:

>

>> I'd suggest: floppy, cd/dvd, hdd, in THAT order.

>

>

> My view is different. I think that the hard drive should be kept first

> in the boot order. I don't want the floppy or CD drive to be checked

> to boot from. I hardly ever want to boot from one of those, and if I

> do, I'll temporarily change the boot order then. I don't want to try

> to boot from a floppy or CD accidentally left in the drive. It will

> generate an error message if it's not bootable, but if it is bootable

> (especially a floppy) it could have undesired consequences. For

> example, although boot sector viruses are much less common these days

> than they used to be, it's always possible that one could turn up on a

> floppy. If the floppy is first in the boot order, and such a diskette

> has been left in the drive, you're infected.

>

>

>

>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>>> A good order is cd/dvd, hdd, floppy, in that order at the top. The rest

>>> doesn't matter.

>>>

>>> "slick1" <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>>> news:C00BA931-2DF0-4A5C-96D6-248ACBE4629F@microsoft.com...

>>>> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and

>>>> now

>>>> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not

>>>> sure

>>>> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

>>>> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,

>>>> but

>>>> no

>>>> luck.

>>>> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

>>>> - USB Key

>>>> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

>>>> - Hard Drive

>>>> - USB Hard Drive

>>>> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

>>>> - Network Drive

>>>> - USB Floppy Device

>>>>

>>>> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

>>>> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

>>>> Explorer 7

>>>>

>>>> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me

>>>> solve

>>>> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

>>

>

> --

> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

[Guest PaulMaudib]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:18:00 -0700, slick1

<slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

>the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

>what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

>suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google, but no

>luck.

> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

> - USB Key

> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

> - Hard Drive

> - USB Hard Drive

> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

> - Network Drive

> - USB Floppy Device

>

>My System: Acer 2450 laptop

> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

> Explorer 7

>

> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me solve

>this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

 

Why ask HERE? This is a problem in your system BIOS and XP has not

even been loaded at that point. Perhaps you should ask this to the

manufacturer of your BIOS or computer, but either way.......

 

Ask elsewhere

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Boot Sequence Trouble

 

PaulMaudib wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:18:00 -0700, slick1

> <slick1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>> My darling(?) little niece got her hands on my laptop keyboard and now

>> the boot-up sequence in "boot options" seems all haywire. I was not sure

>> what the previous order was and do not know what the proper sequence is

>> suppose to be, so maybe someone here can help me out. I tried Google,

>> but no

>> luck.

>> Boot Sequence is at present set at and in this order:

>> - USB Key

>> - USB CD-Rom/DVD Drive

>> - Hard Drive

>> - USB Hard Drive

>> - CD-Rom/ DVD Drive

>> - Network Drive

>> - USB Floppy Device

>>

>> My System: Acer 2450 laptop

>> Windows XP Home Edition SP2

>> Explorer 7

>>

>> I'm a newuser at all this tech stuff and I hope someone can help me

>> solve

>> this problem. ( The computer that is... there's no hope for my niece!)

>

> Why ask HERE? This is a problem in your system BIOS and XP has not

> even been loaded at that point. Perhaps you should ask this to the

> manufacturer of your BIOS or computer, but either way.......

>

> Ask elsewhere

 

Perhaps because he likes Paul, who hasn't offered anything of substance yet?