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Is it possible to boot from the CD rom into another HD? The drive is master on ide 2. which is actually the D drive.
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Is it possible to boot from the CD rom into another HD? The drive is master on ide 2. which is actually the D drive.
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What do you mean "into another HD"? That makes no sense to me.

Its possible to boot from a CD-ROM no matter which channel or drive position, provided that your BIOS and CD-ROM supports it.
 
If you have a bootable CD and you boot that CD it boots to the primary partition on the first bootable device, is this not correct? If I could I would just change the boot drive to D in the BIOS but this is a compaq machine and the BIOS is somehow password protected so I need another way.
 
If you have a bootable CD and you boot that CD it boots to the primary partition on the first bootable device, is this not correct?
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Well, sorta, and not really.... ;-)

If you are booting from a CD, the first bootable device IS the CD drive. Typically, a bootable CD will emulate a bootable floppy diskette, so you will actually be booting into A: drive, except A: drive is no longer your floppy disk drive. Your usual C: drive can still be accessed through its usual drive letter by typing C: at the A: prompt then pressing enter to return a C: prompt.

Your floppy disk drive's logical letter will now be B: and your CD drive can be accessed through whatever drive letter is assigned by the command line or configuration files which load the CD-ROM driver.

A bootable CD may also emulate a hard disk, but this is rarely done so I won't go into it here.
If I could I would just change the boot drive to D in the BIOS but this is a compaq machine and the BIOS is somehow password protected so I need another way.
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Search around for default BIOS passwords used by Compaq. The password is usually "Compaq" without the quotes.

There are other password work-arounds, search the keywords bios, password, compaq on Yahoo or Google.
 
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