RE: Boot Order

HI,
write click on the computer then the propreties then the advanced tab then
select the last settings in boot and recuperation tab to select the os to be
the default until you change the order

"Katrina" wrote:

> I have two OS available on one computer, and can select which to boot on
> start up. How can I change which of these OS is the default, and how long it
> takes for the default to begin loading?

What he meant was to edit your boot.ini file. The boot.ini file is
at the root of the booting hard drive, typically at C:\boot.ini.
You can also edit with:

Rt-clk MyComputer/clk Properties/clk Advanced tab/
clk Settings button in "Startup and Recovery" panel/
clk Edit button in "System starup" panel.

This opens the boot.ini file in Notepad. There will be two "ARC paths"
listed under the "[operating systems]" line. The arguments for "rdisk()"
and "partition()" on one line will match those of the line after "default=".
That is the default OS. To make the other one the default, change the
"rdisk()" and "partition()" arguments in the ARC path of the "default="
entry to match those of the ARC path for the desired OS.
The value of "timeout=" is the number of seconds that the boot loader
will wait for you to make your selection, after which it will automatically
select the default entry.
The character string between quotes which come after each of the
ARC paths under the "[operating systems]" line appear on the screen
menu at boot time. You can set those to whatever makes sense to
you to help identify which OS to which the entry corresponds.

*TimDaniels*

"semetta" wrote:
> write click on the computer then the propreties then the advanced tab
> then select the last settings in boot and recuperation tab to select the
> os to be the default until you change the order
>
> "Katrina" wrote:
>
>> I have two OS available on one computer, and can select which
>> to boot on start up. How can I change which of these OS is the
>> default, and how long it takes for the default to begin loading?