No I think its set to look at "C" first 9tried to speed things up earlier" since I have not used the A drive (floppy) in years...should itbe set at A to C an so on ?

yes

Okay, give a alittle bit as the system takes minutes to shutdown....by the way, is the online seagate ONTRACK thing beneficial? I guess it does what the disk would do but online.

I don't know. I am not familiar with it.

Sorry about the delay....I have 47 things running intask manager....i think that may be why it takes years to shutdown.
Anyway, what F button do I hit when rebooting to get to the set-up screen to adjust boot sequence ?

Compaq Presario 5320US ?

F1 according to this:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...cname=bph07110