I do mean an external hard drive.
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.
If your hard drive is destroyed, then the computer will not boot up at all since it can't read anything off the 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.
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.
Yes. In fact the hard drive is the most common boot disk.
A Windows Boot Disk operates in DOS command line mode.
Removing the hard drive will not cause any damage. However, unless you add another hard drive, or have some other device you can boot off of, the computer will be effectively useless.
Did you install Windows XP to the hard drive? New hard drives do not come with an operating system; to boot from it, you have to install one on it.
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.
Hi you must have a OS on the hard drive and select the hard in the bois
Boot virus
yes it can. restart it then put your hard drive and boom your good:)