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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

Date	2012-01-18 19:30 -0500
From	Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?
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On 18/01/2012 4:55 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> On 18/01/2012 3:50 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>> This is why I asked the question in the first place, when external disks
>> are occasionally plugged in during boot, they mess up the hard disk
>> priority order in the BIOS. So a drive that is not my boot disk may be
>> listed ahead of my boot disk in the BIOS disk priority.
>
> This is weird. If physical disk zero (HDD-0 on my BIOS) is the first
> boot device, then that's the one it should boot from. Maybe you haven't
> plugged your boot drive into the disk-zero location. Both SATA and IDE
> count the disk number from one end of the plug strip/bank to the other,
> make sure you've connected the disks and the external plugs in the
> correct sequence.

No, it's quite definitely disk #0 (first disk enumerated). But for some 
reason my BIOS feels the need to give external disks higher priorities 
whenever they are plugged in, until I manually reorder their priorities 
in the BIOS setup.

	Yousuf Khan

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Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 08:11 -0500
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-16 13:40 +0000
    Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 09:56 -0500
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-16 13:20 -0600
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:27 +1100
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:30 +0000
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-17 03:44 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 04:20 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 11:53 -0600
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 15:42 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 21:07 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 19:23 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 20:23 -0600
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-18 03:22 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 16:05 -0500
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 15:50 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> - 2012-01-18 16:55 -0500
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 19:30 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 07:04 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:24 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:29 +0000
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-16 12:58 -0500
    Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-17 03:48 -0500

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