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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

Date	2012-01-17 03:48 -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 16/01/2012 12:58 PM, Paul wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> Whenever an external drive is plugged into my PC, the BIOS gets all
>> confused and it rearranges the boot order of the drives. You then have
>> to go into the BIOS setup and rearrange them back, which is a
>> temporary solution until you don't connect external drive and you have
>> to do it all over again. Or use the BIOS's boot device chooser which
>> is even more temporary.
>>
>> What I'd like to know is if there is some kind of automatic boot
>> sector manager that can be put onto non-boot disks and redirect the
>> boot towards the right disk?
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> Does your PC have a popup boot menu ?
>
> On my Asus motherboard, you press F8 early in POST. On the Asrock, it's
> F11.
> There will be a list of drives presented, and you select the one you want.
> The selection is temporary, and if on the next boot you don't press any
> key, the preference in the BIOS is applied. The popup boot menu selection
> is not recorded. The mechanism avoids the need to enter the BIOS and make
> changes and save them.
>
> That can function as a workaround, when the BIOS messes things up
> when new disks are added.

Yes it does have the boot menu, as I mentioned in a different way when I 
talked about the "BIOS's boot device chooser". It's okay for somebody 
like me to use a boot device menu, but it's more difficult for other 
users of this computer.

	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
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        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
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            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
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              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
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      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
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