When your computer boots its operating system at default it boots it from the Hard Drive.
If you wanted to run a different operating system from either the USB port or CD spot via dual booting you would need to boot that before your main OS starts from your Hard Drive.
To fix this, in your bios you can select where you want the computer to look for an operating system first, so it starts the correct one.
You don't. Boot priority is specifed by the BIOS, not Windows 2000.
boot priority in BIOS just specifies which drive or other boot able device to use first to boot from.
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You change the boot priority of a system by changing settings in its BIOS setup. The computer's first hard drive is usually the default first boot device.
In gmail, you can set up priority inbox, but apart from that, I don't think so.
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I will have to know more information to help you solve it. Alternatively: Hook your HDD to another computer or boot a linux or mini xp from CD/USB to rescue data or edit your files.* If you have a Windows CD you can boot up on that and access command. Read up on "bootrec".* I'm afraid a fresh install of Windows is your quickest and easiest way to go. *Some computers require you to go into bios from boot to change boot device priority or allow you to use a boot priority start up button (F12 etc.)
BIOS setup
This was a BIOS settings issue. In the BIOS of this Asus netbook I found a second setting, which also had to be set with "USB" as 1st boot device. When I found this setting, the 'Boot Settings' dialog box had the following categories: "Boot Device Priority". "Hard Disk Drives": It was necessary to additionally set "USB" as 1st boot device within the "Hard Disk Drives" category. In here its default settings were: "HDD" "USB".
Fire up task manager by pressing ctrl+alt+del . Click on process tab. Right click on process you want to configure. Go to set priority option and set the priority you need.
The purpose of a boot loader is to load an operating system from a storage device, set up a minimal environment in which the OS can run, and run the operating system's startup procedure.
It depends on what you have set-up for the computer to boot-up. A normal setting is for it to boot from the hardrive or if you are on Linux the setting normally is; BOOT-UP LINUX *-Disk Drive *-USB Ports(sometimes, but not normally) *-Hard Drive *-Floppy Disk