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Change the Boot Order in BIOS

By Tim Fisher, About.com

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Make Changes to the Boot Order

Change Boot Order - BIOS Setup Utility Boot Menu

BIOS Setup Utility Boot Menu

As you can see above, we've changed the boot order from Removable Devices shown in the previous step to the CD-ROM Drive as an example.

BIOS will now look for a bootable CD in the optical disc drive first, before trying to boot to any removable media like a floppy drive and also before trying to boot to the hard drive or a network resource.

Make whatever boot order changes you need and then proceed to the next step to save your settings.

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