topic Boot Sequence in BIOS in PCs & Accessories

Boot Sequence in BIOS

johtaylo13 — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:07:56 GMT

I am trying to change my boot hard disk from Disk 1 to Disk 2. I press F2 during the booting process. Under the "Boot" option I am presented with a boot sequence list. First is the optical disk drive, second is the "Internal Hard Disk Drive". With the "Internal Hard Disk Drive" there is no mention of Disk 1 or Disk 2. How do I change the boot HDD to Disk 2 ?

Boot Sequence in BIOS

Blencogo — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:33:27 GMT

What model Vaio do you have?

Have you added a hard drive or were there two drives installed when the Vaio was new.

If there were two drives initially, then it is likely they are a RAID 0 array and the 2 discs will just be seen as one single volume.

Boot Sequence in BIOS

johtaylo13 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:24:40 GMT

Hi Blencogo,

My Vaio model is a VGN-AW21Z_B. I have not changed the configuration. The Vaio has two disks. Disk 1 is made up of a recovery disk and Drive C. Drive 2 has Drive D. See attached screenshot.

The boot sequence is as follows:

Boot Priority

Select 1^st Boot Priority Internal Optical Disc Drive

Select 2^nd Boot Priority Internal Hard Disk Drive

Select 3^rd Boot Priority External Drive

My question is: Currently I am booting from Drive C. I would like to boot from Drive D. The Boot Priority just says "Internal Hard Disk Drive" and does not indicate which drive this is - C or D? How can I make my laptop boot from D?

Boot Sequence in BIOS

Thalamus. — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:53:29 GMT

Hi johtaylo13,

why do you want to boot from the D drive.?

Do you have an operating system installed on the D drive..:smileyconfused:

The reason you are booting from the C drive is that it's the active partition which has the windows OS installed.

Boot Sequence in BIOS

johtaylo13 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:41:18 GMT

Thanks for your input. This item is now closed.