On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:59:15 -0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Uncle Peter writes

When I said "Crucial SSD", I was referring to your failed DISK, not
your memory.

Well, I've had a very trying day.

But no. C is a SATA HD, and D-E-F is an IDE HD. G is a CD RW / DVD ROM,
and H is a DVD RW. The BIOS shows them all, but I'm having fun trying to
set the boot order.

The BIOS doesn't use letters. They may get rearranged in the boot order if one of them is intermittently being detected. I guess ****ed memory might cause that, but in my experience it's usually the drive's fault. There may be an option in the BIOS to give it longer to spin up if it's an old thing.

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Local police hunting the 'knitting needle nutter', who has stabbed six people in the last 48 hours, believe the attacker could be following some kind of pattern.