Re: Booting from CD drive

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:48:21 -0800 (PST), species8350
<> wrote:

> If I want to boot from the CD drive on ocassions, but otherwise boot
> from the hard disk. How can I achieve this.


Set your BIOS to boot from the CD first and the hard drive second. If
when you boot there's a CD in the drive, it will either boot from it
or prompt you to tell it to boot from it. If there's no CD in the
drive, it will boot from the hard drive.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:58:47 -0800 (PST), species8350
<> wrote:

> On Mar 7, 6:32*pm, "Ken Blake, MVP" <kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:48:21 -0800 (PST), species8350
> >
> > <not_here.5.species8...@xoxy.net> wrote:
> > > If I want to boot from the CD drive on ocassions, but otherwise boot
> > > from the hard disk. How can I achieve this.
> >
> > Set your BIOS to boot from the CD first and the hard drive second. If
> > when you boot there's a CD in the drive, it will either boot from it
> > or prompt you to tell it to boot from it. If there's no CD in the
> > drive, it will boot from the hard drive.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>
> Thank you


You're welcome. Glad to help.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"species8350" <> wrote in message
news:baa2e95a-e08c-4447-9759-...
> On Mar 9, 2:55 am, "Stan Starinski"
> <China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote:
>> What do you mean by "A drive"?

<snip troll drivel>

> Yes I do have a floppy drive ('A')
>
> Ping Ken Blake

species8350,
Do yourself a huge favor and PLONK Stan. He's a well known troll and moron
and replying to him only causes the rest of us who have him sh!t-canned to
see his posts.
--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:05:56 -0800 (PST), species8350
<> wrote:


> Yes I do have a floppy drive ('A')
>
> Ping Ken Blake



Can I help you?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On 3/8/2010 6:55 PM, Stan Starinski wrote:
> What do you mean by "A drive"?
> Did you tower come with an A/B drive, i.e. floppy???
> That is surprising because such media/drives have been phased out years
> ago and no modern computer comes with those.
> So A or B drive is now never used, those drive letters remain to be
> reserved for floppies though and if you ever insist on using a floppy,
> it's possible even today in 2010.
>
Stan
My HP Pavilion is only a couple years old, purchased from Costco, and
has a floppy drive. I think I paid $20 extra when I ordered the computer.

I very seldom use the A: drive, but last week I transferred a 1987 DOS
program from a floppy. The surprising result was that the program ran
just fine in an XP command window -- no mouse support, though.

Bill

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:32:02 -0800, Billns <>
wrote:

> On 3/8/2010 6:55 PM, Stan Starinski wrote:
> > What do you mean by "A drive"?
> > Did you tower come with an A/B drive, i.e. floppy???
> > That is surprising because such media/drives have been phased out years
> > ago and no modern computer comes with those.
> > So A or B drive is now never used, those drive letters remain to be
> > reserved for floppies though and if you ever insist on using a floppy,
> > it's possible even today in 2010.
> >
> Stan
> My HP Pavilion is only a couple years old, purchased from Costco, and
> has a floppy drive. I think I paid $20 extra when I ordered the computer.
>
> I very seldom use the A: drive, but last week I transferred a 1987 DOS
> program from a floppy. The surprising result was that the program ran
> just fine in an XP command window -- no mouse support, though.


You can buy a floppy drive for as little as $10 US or so, and install
it yourself. Installing it is very easy.

I have one here, which I use so seldom that I can't even remember the
last time. Nevertheless there is always the possibility that I have an
old file stored on a floppy that I need to see again. For $10, I'm
more comfortable having one just in case.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:37:47 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:32:02 -0800, Billns <>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/8/2010 6:55 PM, Stan Starinski wrote:
>>> What do you mean by "A drive"?
>>> Did you tower come with an A/B drive, i.e. floppy???
>>> That is surprising because such media/drives have been phased out years
>>> ago and no modern computer comes with those.
>>> So A or B drive is now never used, those drive letters remain to be
>>> reserved for floppies though and if you ever insist on using a floppy,
>>> it's possible even today in 2010.
>>>
>> Stan
>> My HP Pavilion is only a couple years old, purchased from Costco, and
>> has a floppy drive. I think I paid $20 extra when I ordered the computer.
>>
>> I very seldom use the A: drive, but last week I transferred a 1987 DOS
>> program from a floppy. The surprising result was that the program ran
>> just fine in an XP command window -- no mouse support, though.
>
>
> You can buy a floppy drive for as little as $10 US or so, and install
> it yourself. Installing it is very easy.
>
> I have one here, which I use so seldom that I can't even remember the
> last time. Nevertheless there is always the possibility that I have an
> old file stored on a floppy that I need to see again. For $10, I'm
> more comfortable having one just in case.

Years ago, I bought a computer with an offer for a $50 USB floppy drive
with a $50 rebate, so I did it.

Now whenever & wherever I need a floppy, I plug it in. It's small and
light, and it works on laptops, all-in-ones, and even Macs.

Wowee.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:01 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

> Years ago, I bought a computer with an offer for a $50 USB floppy drive
> with a $50 rebate, so I did it.
>
> Now whenever & wherever I need a floppy, I plug it in. It's small and
> light, and it works on laptops, all-in-ones, and even Macs.


That's a great buy (obviously). I'd rather have an external floppy
drive than a built-in one, but I normally opt for the built-ins
because they are so inexpensive.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:01 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
> <not-> wrote:
>
>> Years ago, I bought a computer with an offer for a $50 USB floppy
>> drive
>> with a $50 rebate, so I did it.
>>
>> Now whenever & wherever I need a floppy, I plug it in. It's small
>> and
>> light, and it works on laptops, all-in-ones, and even Macs.
>
>
> That's a great buy (obviously). I'd rather have an external floppy
> drive than a built-in one, but I normally opt for the built-ins
> because they are so inexpensive.
>

By the way, not only are floppy controllers much less common on
motherboards with the latest chipsets, from what we were told by Teac
in January, one of the main component manufacturers of the floppy
drive read head EOLed the component in December last year. I suspect
we won't even be able to buy floppy drives of any kind anywhere a year
from now, except for remaining stock in the supply chain.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.

"species8350" <> wrote in message
news:a41ba75f-6b5f-46af-aca0-...
> On Mar 11, 1:12 am, "Ken Blake, MVP"
> <kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:01 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
>>
>> <not...@other.invalid> wrote:
>> > Years ago, I bought a computer with an offer for a $50 USB floppy drive
>> > with a $50 rebate, so I did it.
>>
>> > Now whenever & wherever I need a floppy, I plug it in. It's small and
>> > light, and it works on laptops, all-in-ones, and even Macs.
>>
>> That's a great buy (obviously). I'd rather have an external floppy
>> drive than a built-in one, but I normally opt for the built-ins
>> because they are so inexpensive.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>
> Can someone reply to my questions

Reread the thread. There have been plenty of replies to your question.
--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."