I have successfully ghosted one partition

[Omega Man]

Of one of my hard drives into a partition in another hard drive. I want to boot into that partition to see if it is operating correctly. When my computer boots up I press the function key "F8". As I go into CMOS there are about 12 options open to me. I don't know which one to choose. I may not be going about this correctly. Please advise

[TwoRails]

Hi Omega Man,

Normally, you just let it boot up. Is you mobo an older one where you have to manually setup the HD? If not, set it to Auto, and let it rip....

TwoRails

[Omega Man]

Well I guess I am pretty basic user. By computer usually boots up into the C drive. I'm trying to give it to put up into the E. drive which is a clone of the C. drive.

[TwoRails]

Hi Omega Man

OK, I think I see now... I thought you pulled the orig C drive and installed the clone as C to test it. That's usually a good, sure fire method of testing that the clone took OK.

As far as booting to a different physical hard drive from the BIOS, some allow this, others don't. I take it you have 3 drives?? That would explain the E drive instead of it being a D drive.

In the BIOS, somewhere is the BOOT order, which is typically A, C, CD-ROM, then NIC. Change the C option to the drive you want to boot from. Some mobos are a little buggy here, and it may / may not work.

Good Luck

TwoRails

[homey]

I think that you could be in for a BSOD because of the drive changing situation.

Here is a neat (free) program which you can use on a boot floppy to select which hard drive boots. This is like changing the bios only much easier (IMHO)



http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/