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| theres a compaq laptop that seems to be sick. lol the hard drive was newly reformatted.(not by me) and for some reason whoever did this decided to make the recovery drive the primary drive. there is absolutly 0 space left. the c drive on the other hand is empty. my question is.... how do i get the computer to run off of the c drive and not the recovery drive(d) any help would be much appreciated. ![]() thank you, silence |
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| um. Is there an OS installed? It will boot to the OS
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if not, check the BIOS and fix the boot order. My System: hAvAAck Build 3
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| it runs windows xpsp2. how do i go about changing that? |
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| enter into BIOS or setup when it's booting (it will tell you to hit del or a function key)
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then enter into boot order and check the boot order options (CDROM, Harddisk) and see if there are more than one harddisk Otherwise you might try to boot from XP CD and repair the boot sector My System: hAvAAck Build 3
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