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Change the Boot Order in BIOS

By Tim Fisher, About.com

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Start the Computer With the New Boot Order

Change Boot Order - Example Boot From CD Prompt

Example "Boot From CD" Prompt

When your computer restarts, BIOS will attempt to boot to the first device in the boot order you specified. If the first device is not bootable, your computer will try to boot from the second device in the boot order, and so on.

Note: In Step 4, we set the first boot device to the CD-Rom Drive as an example. As you can see in the screenshot above, the computer is attempting to boot to the CD but is asking for a confirmation first. This only happens on some bootable CDs and will not show up when booting to Windows or other operating systems on a hard drive. Setting the boot order to boot to a CD or DVD is the most common reason for making boot order changes so I wanted to include this screenshot as an example.

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