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    Boot Priority Problem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by claus1225, Feb 23, 2006.

  1. claus1225

    claus1225 Notebook Guru

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    Hi all,

    I own a toshiba satellite 5205 and lately I've been having problem booting my laptop. It almost always boot from cd-rom first and asked me to insert system disk. I have to manually shut down and turn on my machine about 50 times before it finally boots windows. I checked my boot priority and it's set at HDD->FDD->CD-ROM->LAN. I changed it to FDD->HDD->CD-ROM->LAN, but the problem still exists. The machine just kept on booting from cd-rom. This problem surfaced a while ago when I replaced the memory and had to change the boot priority to booting CD-ROM first in order to check the memory using memory diagnostic disk. I think that messed up the boot priority. The boot agent is Intel boot agent v. 4.02. Is there any solution to this without having to reinstall the systerm? Thanks so much.

    chris
     
    claus1225, Feb 23, 2006
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  2. mtrivs

    mtrivs Notebook Evangelist

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    If your problem is truely the boot order, you wont be able to fix that by wiping out the system. Those settings are in the BIOS, which does not get erased when you re-format. I would make the changes to the boot order and make sure your selecting the "exit & save changes" option so that your settings are saved. If this doesnt work, i would try writing down the entire configuration of your BIOS and try and set them back to default. After that save your changes and exit.....
     
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