Dual Hard Drive Problem

[george]

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I recently installed a second hard drive on my Dell 8100 running XP Home.
The drive is a Seagate 160 GB and I used the software "step-by-step" program
that came with the drive to install it. I am not well versed on computer
operations. When the computer boots up a screen pops up that shows Windows
XP on drive C (original drive) and Windows XP on drive F (new drive). The
problem is that when the computer starts, it defaults to the F drive if I do
not manually select the C drive within 30 seconds of the screen displaying
the "select drive" option. Is there a way to change the settings to have
the system default to the C drive that won't give me brain sprain.

Thanks,

George

 

[Guest]

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Hi,

right click on my computer in the start menu
click on properties
click on advanced tab
click on settings button in the third tab (start up and recovery)
then u will see the window which says default operating system
select the first one and then click on apply.
if u want u can suppress that display of the os at startup by unchecking the box "time to display the list of operating systems"
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Regards
M. Rajesh
..Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com


"George" wrote:

> I recently installed a second hard drive on my Dell 8100 running XP Home.
> The drive is a Seagate 160 GB and I used the software "step-by-step" program
> that came with the drive to install it. I am not well versed on computer
> operations. When the computer boots up a screen pops up that shows Windows
> XP on drive C (original drive) and Windows XP on drive F (new drive). The
> problem is that when the computer starts, it defaults to the F drive if I do
> not manually select the C drive within 30 seconds of the screen displaying
> the "select drive" option. Is there a way to change the settings to have
> the system default to the C drive that won't give me brain sprain.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Hi,

hate to say this but......

your first mistake was installing an operating system on your second drive,
especially the same one as on your C drive.

i would recommend you format your 2nd drive and leave it with just a FAT
partition on it.....

you can still copy files to it, and download straight to a folder on that
drive.

the only time you need to install software onto a 2nd drive is when using a
dual boot system, i.e windows Xp and say.....windows ME

hope that helps.

if you want me to go into it in more details for you please email me on
jking44@ntlworld.com

regards
Josev King