Yes. They are a lot different, but they are made to work the same way as regular drives.
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Your Bios has an option to boot from your DVD Drive or external drive. If the internal or external drive has no boot sector or disc with a boot sector the system will not boot. You will need to go into your bios at boot time most often by tapping your delete key or whatever option your motherboard bios requires and change the option back to boot from your hard drive.
A CD-ROM drive is not needed to boot the computer. Just put the hard drive first in the boot order in the BIOS.
Yes, it's possible but you have to have a bootable zip drive. You have to put the zip drive first in the boot menu.
How do you get a computer to boot up with no hard drive? What are the steps or what is the process of getting a hard drive installed into your computer if it is not bootable because of a missing hard drive.
The "No Operating System Found" error typically indicates that the computer cannot locate a bootable operating system on the hard drive or solid-state drive. This can occur due to various reasons, such as a corrupted operating system, a failed hard drive, incorrect BIOS/UEFI settings, or a disconnected or damaged drive. To resolve the issue, you may need to check the drive connections, adjust the boot order in BIOS/UEFI, or reinstall the operating system.
Only if you can boot from it. Most new computers can boot from a USB drive, but older ones may not be able to.
Yes. In fact the hard drive is the most common boot disk.
I do mean an external hard drive.
You do not have to reinstall Windows if you wish to add an additional drive. If you want to be able to boot from that drive, or to replace your current boot drive, you will need to install Windows on it.
if your first boot device is an optical drive, this allows you to boot from a recovery disk or live CD in case of hard drive failure or corruption. This can be useful for troubleshooting computer problems.
Go to system settings when the computer starts to boot up, and then it will show you what drive is your hard drive. The hard drive is what the computer normally boots in unless changed and the letter is normally C:/