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Your gateway says CD-rom boot priority no medium what should you do?
what it means is on startup of your computer the first thing your computer looks at is the CD ROM if there is no CD in the ROM drive it will then go to either floppy disc if you have one ,or read off your hard drive and windows should start up. all this info is put into your bios on the first time setup. Okay, I understand that but it will not boot … it stay at "CD-Rom Boot Priority .. No Medium Reboot and select proper boot drive" what do I select? 1…2…3…
1 a client wants to boot from the windows xp professional CD-rom to install windows xp professional but when he inserts the CD-rom in the drive and tries to boot the PC boots from the hard disk ins?
Change the boot order in the CMOS/BIOS.
How can I get XP to boot automatically instead of only from the CD which I misused trying to reinstall XP to resolve a problem?
Take the CD out of the CD-ROM, or/and change the boot order in BIOS (the system hard drive should be first in the boot list).
An is a hard disk that can be removed from the system unit?
Both internal and external hard drives can be removed from a computer provided that the PC does not boot from any of them. In that case, the first boot device would have to be a removable drive like CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or floppy drive.
How do I set up my hard drive I bought an all new system and I cant install anything because my drive isn't formated?
if you have an operating system disk just put the disk in...it should boot from the CD ROM if not you need to get into your bios and change the boot order so the CD ROM reads before the hard drive and it should install automatically
When installing a hard drive and a CD-ROM drive on the same IDE channel which do you configure as the master and which as the slave?
Configure the hard drive as the master and the CD-ROM as the slave.
Can you boot from a CD-ROM?
Yes you can, but only if the BIOS setting permits it. If it doesn't do it automatically you will have to check the "Boot devices" settings and make sure CD-ROM comes first in the list. You can check the BIOS settings at the point when you boot up the PC after it has been switched off. Switch on the PC and then, during the boot-up phase, you must keep holding down the 'Delete' key until the BIOS settings screen is displayed. Then find the "Boot devices screen" and use the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keys to ensure that "Boot from CD-ROM" appears 1st in the list and the Hard Disk appears 2nd in the list. Then save the settings and allow the PC to reboot. It will then check if there is a CD-ROM inserted in the drive. If there is a CD-ROM there it will try to boot from it. If you have made the PC's 2nd boot device the Hard Disk then, if there is no CD-ROM in the drive, the PC will go to the the Hard Disk to boot up. All that will happen automatically every time the PC is rebooted.
Why would the computer be set to boot from a CD-ROM drive rather than from a hard disk?
If I understand what you are saying then the reason for that is that the hard drive may be damaged when you need to use it or it can not be read properly
On a system with one hard drive and one cd-rom what is the typical placement of the cd-rom drive?
Master drive on the primary IDE channel
How do you boot a computer with a damaged hard disk?
You don't. Unless you've got a live CD, then you can boot into that by pressing the delete button upon boot and change the boot device 1 to cd-rom. Or even easier, press F8/F12 depending on mother board and choose to boot from CD-rom.
what are the functions of cd rom?
The main functions of a CD-ROM drive involve reading data on a compact disk and writing data on the same. This drive also makes it possible to boot a computer from a cd with a bootable installation.
What standard must an ide bus controller and CD-ROM drive support in order to boot from CD?
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