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System Upgrade

by THOMAS_J_MCCABE Feb 23, 2006 12:01AM PST

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173 Laptop. In the "Upgrade Your Notebook Computer" Course,Lesson 3, 'Prep your laptop for surgery' you state "make sure your laptop is configured to boot from the optical drive before the hard drive". I cannot locate the instructions for that configuration in the manual. Please help !!!

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It's in the BIOS. . .

by Coryphaeus Feb 23, 2006 1:20AM PST

Most late model PCs have the first boot device set as the optical drive. This is set in the BIOS and is accessable only immediately after the laptop starts to boot. You usually hit the ctrl key, or maybe F1, or F10. Each laptop is different, you'll have to contact Toshiba if the above keys don't work, or to get specific instructions for your model.

Once you get into the BIOS, depending on the software, you should be able to choose something like "1st boot device". The drive may have several names like CD, or DVD, or optical drive.

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