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S!X
06-22-2004, 07:24 AM
ok i have 3 devices that boot but what is the like the best order for them i think it goes Cd drive/floppy harddrive currently.

QazQaz007
06-22-2004, 08:46 AM
just go with what you got
there is no diff in speed unless
you just go with hdd
but that means that if you have
to boot from a cd or something
you have to enable it each time

but your fine with what you got
the only thing it would effect would
be your boot up time by about
1-2 sec not really worth your time
to change it

SingaBoiy
06-22-2004, 10:28 AM
I always set mine to:
cdrom
hdd
floppy

That way when I have to boot to cd, I dont have to keep going into bios.

clocker
06-22-2004, 01:08 PM
I've always set to boot from HDD only.
That way the BIOS isn't looking for other devices all the time.
When I know I want a fresh install, I just set BIOS first.

tesco
06-22-2004, 03:37 PM
I removed floppy from my list all together since i don't ahve one, and won't need to boot from it. Then i set my cdrw drive as first boot device and harddrive as last.

I used to do it the way clocker said, but i kinda became too lazy to change it everytime.

integer
06-22-2004, 07:18 PM
I always disable any component in the boot sequence I won't be using. for example, if I need to boot from cd I'll but CD-room, HDD, Floppy. But for normal usage, just boot off HDD, CD-rom, Floppy.

kaiweiler
06-22-2004, 07:31 PM
I just go with boot from HD only.
The only times I need to boot from another device is when I am installing my OS or something along those lines which isn't very often.
So with set as HD only whenever you need to boot to something else you just go back and set it to floppy first or cd-rom first.
When I have it set as boot HD only, it cuts down on load up times because it is not looking for media in the other devices as well.