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Hard drive please can you tell me how to make my new hard drive the default drive so it starts up rather than my old drive which have kept in my computer it works fine just a bit slow

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  • blobby 1 Oct 21, 2008

    both as I have cloned my old drive

  • blobby 1 Oct 21, 2008

    both because I have just cloned my old drive to my new one

  • blobby 1 Oct 23, 2008

    please can you tell me how to make my new hard the default drive as well as keeping my old drive installed all I have managed to do is clone my new drive so it is an exact copy of the old one

  • blobby 1 Oct 24, 2008

    many thanks problem sorted again thanks

    Blobby 1

  • patnelligan1 Oct 24, 2008

    I'm still trying to figure out how to klone my new drive. It does not appear on My Computer window. So how do I copy drive to new one??

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Thanks for the fixya..can you tell me what you found?

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Hmm..well..it is not that simple, frankly..which hard drive has the operating system on it..

  • Anonymous Oct 23, 2008

    that guest entry was actually me, but was not logged in on my other computer..

  • Anonymous Oct 23, 2008

    well..that boot sequence is usually accessible through bios setup, which is F2 on most bios and pc systems..press F2 as it boots, and before the icon appears..then follow the boot sequence instructions. be gentle in there..many options for difficulty can happen in setup.

    and thank you for using FixYa! for the solution to this problem

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