How can I make my primary HDD to auto boot as my OS because I have two OS, the slave is the one auto booting?
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Firstly, there are two drives per IDE cable. Those are Master and Slave. Also, there are two channels per IDE controller: Primary and Secondary. It is most common to have a single IDE controller per computer. What this means for you is that you have 4 settings possible for each Hard Drive:
Primary- Master
Primary-Slave
Secondary-Master
Secondary-slave
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press f12 for the boot menu on start up and change the settings there
My Computer> right-click > Properties > Advance-tab > Startup and Recovery (settings) > Default operating system-List
Go to start-> run-> type 'Msconfig' and then go to boot.ini tab.
Once there look for the description which has the desired OS listed. Select it and then click on the box 'make it default'. Reboot the system.
It should work.
Not enough info!
You did not mention what the 2 OS's are, just that the slave is the one that boots.
If they are both Windows, then are they the same version?
If not, I don't know which you prefer.
However, it sounds like you want the master to be the booter upper. (Did I say that?)
You can either set it with the BIOS routine at bootup through the auto-boot OR,
Put the master-slave pin settings on BOTH HDD's correctly, in other words, switch them--make the slave the master and the master the slave and make sure that the ribbon cable joining the two drives have the end adapter to the master and the middle adapter to the slave. Come to think of it, do that right now and it just may solve it.
If you change the ribbon cable at all, be sure the colored edge is on pin #1.
Get online and search for a program called Vista Boot Pro. It is a developer tool which allows you to edit your boot.ini file with extreme ease to the point of choosing which is default, timeout for decision etc. If you can't find it send me an email and I will email it to you. It's only a small file of maybe 3 MB or so.
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