If you
get this prompt unintentionally, simply press ESC again to get rid of it.
Step 4: Boot Your PC from the Optical Drive
Under normal circumstances, your PC boots, or starts, from its hard drive, loading
Windows (or another operating system) from there. Once Windows starts, you can
log in, and then you??™re computing as usual.
But sometimes you may need to boot your PC from a different drive. For example,
you may need to boot from the optical drive (the CD, DVD, or similar drive) in order
to troubleshoot your PC or to install another operating system, or you may need to
boot from a USB device in order to run another operating system.
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To set your PC to boot from the optical drive, you usually need to change boot
settings in the BIOS. The examples in this section show you how to make this change
using a typical PhoenixBIOS and a typical AMIBIOS. Depending on the specific BIOS
your PC uses, you may need to take somewhat different steps??”even if the BIOS is
one of these types.
Set a PhoenixBIOS PC to Boot from the Optical Drive
To set a PhoenixBIOS-based PC to boot from the optical drive, follow these steps:
Access the BIOS. For example, start your PC, and then press F2 when prompted.
The PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility screen appears, as shown in Figure 6-3 (earlier
in this project).
Press RIGHT ARROW four times (moving the gray highlight along the top row
under ???PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility???) to select the Boot tab:
Examine the order in which the devices appear.
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