OS boot order

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Hi, I recovered my laptop by using installing XP again onto my C drive.
The C drive is just a backup drive, whereas the D drive has the OS XP Pro and my data on it.

Now when I boot, it gives me a choice between 'XP Pro' and 'XP Pro Professional'

I choose XP Pro Professional, as that's my D drive.

However it's defaulted at my C drive 'XP Pro'

Pretty simple, but I've forgotten how you change the boot order interms on which OS it boots to.

Also when I boot into the D drive it takes quite a while to load into the logon screen.

Is this because it's not the default, or something else?

 

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Hi Flex, in answer to your first question, the option you are looking for is

under:

start ==> Control Panel ==> System

Choose the "advanced" tab, and at the bottom there should be a "startup and recovery option" Go into that, and at the top is all your options for booting, such as what OS and how long to wait before continuing.

As for your second problem, I'm not quite sure, still to early here , and far to much to do!!


But it may be to do with the boot order. Try changing it and see what happens.

HTH

Andy

 

Thanks punkboy.

It just failed me where it was set lol, I've never had to set it before I don't think, so that's my excuse

I'll try a reboot and see what happens.

Thanks

 

bah
in my day we had to hard edit the boot.ini file
bloody youth of today

 

Ah, the joys of playing with boot.ini. I still love it.

Plus, you can have some mean fun on colleagues' PCs. and they wont have a clue how to fix it

 

The OS boot menu is now set correctly.

However it still takes ages to boot into the logon screen.

It's the part where the screen is black and the white lines at the bottom of the screen usually wizz past.But the white lines are taking ages to appear.

I can't have it being this slow all the time.