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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? |
| Date | 2012-01-16 12:58 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jf1og8$ntt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <4f14220e$1@news.bnb-lp.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
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.
Paul
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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 19:23 -0500
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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> - 2012-01-18 16:55 -0500
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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-16 12:58 -0500
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