boot loader

yeh i had a look in the bios earlyer but cant see an option to chose what drive to boot first just the chioce to boot from hard disk first as aposed to cd or floppy

ok a bit more digging in the bios and i found it

IDE Channel 0 master {none}
IDE Channel 1 slave {none}
IDE Channel 1 master {sony dvd rw]
IDE Channel 1 slave [hl-dt-st gce-8481b]
IDE Channel 2 master [WDC 74]
IDE Channel 3 master [maxtor]
IDE Channel 4 master [hitachi]
IDE Channel 5 master [none]

so looks like all my HDD are set to master, should i only have 1 master and the rest slaves?

Right ok if you can't find the option in the bios then you could just physically swap the drives around on the IDE ports on the motherboard and don't forget to alter the boot ini file too.

so my main default drive should go to the top, then next down will be the other HDD with the other OS on and the other HDD storage?

and how would i edit the inii should'nt that be done its self when it boots up after the swap?

damn this is like puling fcuking teeth

oo fuckin jesus what a mess hahhaa aye 1 master other hd as slave.

The main HD the one you want to boot from should master and the second hd should be slave. I think. <!-- s:? --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt="" title="Confused" /><!-- s:? -->

Errr i can't figure out whats going on i need to be in physical contact to see what your describing.

So fuck it install ubuntu and that will install grub and give you a nice menu when you boot up. You never know you might like Ubuntu