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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.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoif the optical drive is the first boot device then your computer will try to boot off a CD or DVD before your hard drive. So if this is what you want then do it, but if you don't need to boot off a disk than all it does is slow your boot. you make it first to boot by going into ur bios when your hardware vendors splash screen pops up. it may say press del or f1 or f10 to boot to setup or bios. also on most laptops f10 will allow you to tell it to temporarly boot off of your CD drive.
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Why would you change the first boot device to the optical drive
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∙ 7y agoYou make the optical drive the first boot if you wish to install another operating system off a CD disk onto the hard-drive.
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If a had drive is in master-configuration is it the first device?
no, the BIOS is what chooses the first Boot device. YOU can change the first boot device by altering the BIOS. if however, you are talking about 1st, 2nd hard drive etc, then yes.
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Was the first standard optical storage device available for personal computers was the CD?
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You need a new CD or DVD drive first.
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Which BIOS option allows you to choose the DVD drive as the first boot device?
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How do you booth to a CD and not the hard drive?
Usually if you have a bootable CD in your CD drive it will automatically boot, if not you will need to change your BIOS settings so it boots from CD before attempting to boot from your hard drive. To do so on start up it says "Press Del to enter setup" so press delete. It should be in "Boot configuration" or "Advanced BIOS" and there will be options "First boot device" and "Second boot device" and so on, go to first press enter and then click across until it says CD drive. Then go to second and change it to what first used to be. Tada, save and exit BIOS and on restart you'll boot from the CD if there is one in there.
How do you boot from a CD?
First thing is, the CD has to be a 'Bootable CD'.Change the 'First/Primary boot device' in the bios setting to 'CD ROM'. Ususally it will be floppy disk, by default. Insert the bootable CD into the CD drive. That's it!!
