I have a 2nd computer and its primary drive is D:\ . I yanked out the C:\ drive and it still boots (D:\ didn't change ). I thought that the boot sector was written only on the C:\ drive .
quote:Originally posted by PlusFan
if the primary is the one which windows calls "D:", then it's seems no more than logical that the boot manager is installed there..
From what I've heard - the boot sector ONLY writes to C:\.
quote:Originally posted by blade
From what I've heard - the boot sector ONLY writes to C:\.
you can write anything to any physical drive you wish and assign a logical driveletter. Especially now-a-days ("XP-days")where you can swap driveletters and physical drives like childsplay...
This post was edited on 02-14-2005 at 07:56 PM by CookieRevised.
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RE: How is this possible? :|
The bios tries the following boot devices in order:
Primary IDE Master (Harddrive 1)
Primary IDE Slave (Harddrive 2)
Secondary IDE Master (Usually CDROM 1)
Secondary IDE Slave (Usually CDROM 2)
However these settings can usually be configured in the CMOS setup.
When a disk drive is booted, the Master Boot Record starts and tries to boot to each partition on the drive marked as bootable, usually starting with the first partition (C:\ on harddrive 1)
When a partition is booted, the partition's local Boot Record starts and attempts to load the operating systems on that disk in the order specsified in the bootloader configuration.
Boot Records can sometimes list the avaible boot choices in a menu during startup like if you have a dual-boot configuration.
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quote:Originally posted by Shawnz
The bios tries the following boot devices in order:
Primary IDE Master (Harddrive 1)
Primary IDE Slave (Harddrive 2)
Secondary IDE Master (Usually CDROM 1)
Secondary IDE Slave (Usually CDROM 2)
However these settings can usually be configured in the CMOS setup.
When a disk drive is booted, the Master Boot Record starts and tries to boot to each partition on the drive marked as bootable, usually starting with the first partition (C:\ on harddrive 1)
When a partition is booted, the partition's local Boot Record starts and attempts to load the operating systems on that disk in the order specsified in the bootloader configuration.
Boot Records can sometimes list the avaible boot choices in a menu during startup like if you have a dual-boot configuration.
I tried b4 and it didn't boot with just D:\ in it.
quote:Originally posted by toddy
for somone who runs a computer shop, u sure don't actually seem to know much
What you will want to take a look at is the Boot Device Priority in your BIOS under Boot. Check to see how your drives boot. Since you have Windows installed you have a boot.ini file telling there is an OS on a specific partition. Also from what I can remember all drives have a bootsector.
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How is this possible? :|
). I thought that the boot sector was written only on the C:\ drive 
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