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How can I change the boot drive?

Have 2 hard disk drives connected to SCSI controller.
CMOS is setup to boot from SCSI.
The SCSI BIOS is set to boot from SCSI ID#1, DSK0.
Windows XP Active drive setting is SCSI ID#0 DSK1.
Where does the machine boot from?
It boots from SCSI ID#0,DSK1, I wonder why?
How can I change this to SCSI IS#1, DSK0?

Specs:
AMI BIOS v1.18.02 for Tyan S1836 Thunder 100 motherboard
SCSI BIOS v1.32 for Adaptec AIC 7895 SCSI controller
scsi Hard Drives: Seagate ST34573SW (ID#0, DSK1), ST39173SW (ID#1 DSK0)
Configured as BASIC drives,NTFS5
OS: Windows XP 2003

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by pierrejamme

I believe SCSI will always boot from SCSI ID 0, so just change the jumpers. Hope that helps.
peter

by sprocket

SCSI will always boot from ID#0 DSK1.
The rest of the disks are designed for Raid, extra storage, not boot disks.

by kcav

Thank you for your reply.

I switched the jumpers on the SCSI drives and the drive I want to boot from became ID#0,DSK0 in the SCSI BIOS, however the system continued to boot from the wrong drive.

I rebooted and was asked which system I want to boot from. I selected the other, and this caused the system to boot off the drive I want to use as my boot drive.

I went into Computer Management, and under Disk Management I deleted the drive partition on the other SCSI. When I rebooted Disk Manager showed the SCSI drive as Unknown, and two IDE drives I have on the system were Foreign.

I Imported them and they are now back to Dynamic, NTFS, Spanned drive D. I undeleted the SCSI and it is now a Basic drive, online, space unallocated.

My drives are now booting the way I want except for one thing. My boot drive is labeled drive E. How can I change it to C?

by kcav

Thank you for your reply. I discovered that my drives were defective. I have stop using the SCSI controller.

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