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Title: OS switching help Post by: bronto on July 04, 2005, 03:53:48 pm This might not be the best place, but whatever maybe someone here knows, I already tried google.
I have windowsME on one hard drive, and windows XP on the other. right now XP is the default, but I want to boot up in ME. how can I switch from one to the other and back again whenever i want to? Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 04, 2005, 03:56:08 pm This might not be the best place, but whatever maybe someone here knows, I already tried google. I have windowsME on one hard drive, and windows XP on the other. right now XP is the default, but I want to boot up in ME. how can I switch from one to the other and back again whenever i want to? Um, I think I speak for just about everyone in the community when I say: We are not here to help you with your fucking Windows problems! Peace. -GhostSniper Out.[/size] Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: bronto on July 04, 2005, 06:36:32 pm GS, the question was directed to anyone who doesn't have a rod up their ass, sorry for not being specific.
Seriously though, there's quite a few people that use PC on this forum, who's to say I can't ask a pc question? Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: gsr on July 04, 2005, 08:33:45 pm It's been a while since I had to deal with windows but I seem to remember that during boot, you can choose the start up disk by holding down some keys (cntl/c ?). As I recall, the process is similar to starting in Safe Mode and allows you to choose the appropriate disk. You might want to check your help regarding start up options.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: bronto on July 04, 2005, 11:05:54 pm Thanks, but I think you're referring to the Disc boot order in BIOS, which i tried already. if not, i'll try ctrl and c anyway.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: *DAMN Hazard on July 04, 2005, 11:28:47 pm This might not be the best place, but whatever maybe someone here knows, I already tried google. I have windowsME on one hard drive, and windows XP on the other. right now XP is the default, but I want to boot up in ME. how can I switch from one to the other and back again whenever i want to? Um, I think I speak for just about everyone in the community when I say: We are not here to help you with your fucking Windows problems! Peace. -GhostSniper Out.[/size] Um... i think I speak for just about everyone in the community when I say shut the fuck up I would never let you speak for me unless someone happened to ask me "Hey Hazard what would you say if you were an ignorant asshole?" Then in that extreme case I would let you talk for me. Anyway I saw a friend do it by holding down some keys or some crap if you cant figure it out just call microsoft or email them. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 05, 2005, 12:54:30 am This might not be the best place, but whatever maybe someone here knows, I already tried google. I have windowsME on one hard drive, and windows XP on the other. right now XP is the default, but I want to boot up in ME. how can I switch from one to the other and back again whenever i want to? Um, I think I speak for just about everyone in the community when I say: We are not here to help you with your fucking Windows problems! Peace. -GhostSniper Out.[/size] Um... i think I speak for just about everyone in the community when I say shut the fuck up I would never let you speak for me unless someone happened to ask me "Hey Hazard what would you say if you were an ignorant asshole?" Then in that extreme case I would let you talk for me. Anyway I saw a friend do it by holding down some keys or some crap if you cant figure it out just call microsoft or email them. Actually, I know exactly how to do it, as I am FORCED to use a Windows PC at work. But I'm not gonna tell you here, sorry. It would just be too....distasteful for me to give you Windows help on this site. Goes against everything I believe in. Sorry. -GhostSniper Out.[/size] Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: th.Sentinel on July 05, 2005, 10:41:22 am I wonder why ppl never Google (http://www.google.com) it first before asking on a forum. Its so much easier and faster to find an answer...
Hope this one can help you: http://www.winxpfix.com/page5.htm Or this: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/96/ Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 05, 2005, 03:23:01 pm Sentinel is such a good guy. Too bad I'm not. ;D
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: bronto on July 05, 2005, 03:29:46 pm the OS switching only allows shows windows XP in the choices, i already tried it. i also tried doing it from computer management, same thing. and when i switched the boot order of the discs i got a Missing bla bla error, restart.
ghostsniper stop posting if you're not helping, thanks. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 05, 2005, 03:33:08 pm ghostsniper stop posting if you're not helping, thanks. Actually, I AM helping, you are just not seeing it. The whole point was this: GO POST YOUR PROBLEM ON A WINDOWS FORUM. You are much more likely to get the help you are looking for there. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: *DAMN Hazard on July 05, 2005, 10:23:13 pm Bronto is clearly a Mac advocate having used one for years who just needs some help with his current computer. Show some fucking class. People like you give us all a bad name. Either provide him with some useful info about how to do this or keep your ignorant opinion of Windows and their users to yourself.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 05, 2005, 10:29:09 pm Bronto is clearly a Mac advocate having used one for years who just needs some help with his current computer. Show some fucking class. People like you give us all a bad name. Either provide him with some useful info about how to do this or keep your ignorant opinion of Windows and their users to yourself. Ignorant? I'm writing this to you from my computer at work, which happens to be a Dell Dimension 4600 with a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 Processor running Windows XP (Service Pack 2). It isn't ignorance of Windows and Windows users that made me say what I said. It's the fact that he asked a technical question about Windows on a forum devoted to people who use a Macintosh. Now, if you want to know just how ignorant I am, go post a technical question about OS X on a Windows forum and see how fast you get laughed out of there, if they don't delete all your posts and deactivate your account at the same time. I was, in fact, trying to be helpful when I said he should post his problem on a Windows forum, as that is both the appropriate place for it, as well as being the place where he might actually get help from. Sure, I was an ass in the way I said it, so sue me. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BFG on July 05, 2005, 10:30:14 pm OK it got a bit mixed up in the jokey "mac v pc" thing "and the this is a mac forum damn it skiddadle you smelly pc user" talk, but Ghostsniper had a point, Bront's your much more likely to find the solution to your problems if you go to one of the billions of windows tech sites that must deal with this stuff all the time, if it was a mac we'd have all stuck our hands up and answered, but this aint exactly all our area of knowledge.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: *DAMN Hazard on July 05, 2005, 10:41:44 pm I'm not trying to start a flamewar here but GS, Bronto is a part of this community with a problem regardless and you should at least treat him with some respect. Who cares if windows users would laugh at you? Who says we have to be like them? Don't be a jerk just let him know how and simply say next time it would be better to look on a windows user forum.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 05, 2005, 11:20:00 pm Okay, I'm going to take Hazard's advice on this one and help you out Bronto...As much as I despise giving Windows Tech Support on a Macintosh site.
The long and short of it is you need to get a boot manager. There is no easy way to do what you want to do without one. Your best option for a boot manager for the money is going to be this one: http://www.osloader.com/ It is fairly cheap, with a $24.90 registration fee. You can download a copy directly from that site. By the way, before I sold cars and while the U.S. Military was paying me to go to college (while I was in the Air Force), I used to work for a computer company where I did both Macintosh and PC sales, on-site upgrades and repairs, and Tech Support. This is during the time that I forever decided that PC's were the worst computers ever made, with the worst operating systems ever devised. I was already a Mac-user at that time (have been ever since 1984), but this just reaffirmed how much better Macs are over PC's. Peace. -GhostSniper Out. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: bronto on July 06, 2005, 03:07:31 am Thank you all. That wasn't so hard was it GS? :D
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 06, 2005, 04:10:18 am Thank you all. That wasn't so hard was it GS? :D You have no idea...[/size] ::wall:: Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: .vooDoo. on July 06, 2005, 06:34:42 am No fucking shit eh? what the hell was so hard about telling him that?
Sorry Bronto, if I saw the post earlier we could have avoided all this GS, cough, I mean BS. ;D voo Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: crypt on July 06, 2005, 11:18:58 am Made for a good laugh for everyone else including me. :)
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 06, 2005, 03:33:00 pm No fucking shit eh? what the hell was so hard about telling him that? Sorry Bronto, if I saw the post earlier we could have avoided all this GS, cough, I mean BS. ;D If he had asked me in a PM I would have told him that right away. I just feel so...guilty...about helping a Windows user in a forum devoted to Macintosh. Feels so...nasty. Gritty. Yukky. I'm a nice guy, really I am. But some things I must stand up for! lol Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: crypt on July 06, 2005, 07:47:54 pm Windows really does blow, for some reason my friends think getting viruses makes an operating system superior. Ah I just want to blow someone's head off with a shotgun when they say that.
Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: BFG on July 06, 2005, 09:40:18 pm Quote Windows really does blow, for some reason my friends think getting viruses makes an operating system superior. Ah I just want to blow someone's head off with a shotgun when they say that. hahaha, do they get that smug wanker feeling when their HD's get wiped by some stupid crap virus built by a 11 year-old because he got bored doing his colouring in book? ... i had a mate who was a smug twat with his bloody windows "workstation" ... But its more of a "dosn't-fucking-work-station" now after the whole thing got infested and died hehehe. ::lol:: I love Windows, it separates the idiots from the computer industry. Right now unfortunately the computer market seems to be saturated with about 97% retards. Title: Re: OS switching help Post by: crypt on July 07, 2005, 04:20:53 am I do give in to the notion that there are more Windows users thus more viruses, but I think Mac OS X would outperform Windows at least 75% as far as viruses if it were in Windows' position.
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