BOOT from Slave Drive

[Winkerbie]

I need to know how to boot from my Slave DVD Drive?

MY master drive is only A CDRW drive so it is vital for me to know how to set my (E:\) DVD Drive to boot. Is there any way to do this without having to change cabling around inside the computer.

Thanks for any Help ;)

[degsy]

Welcome :)

At boot press the key to show the boot menu
If there isn't one then press the key to enter the BIOS/CMOS setup. Usually Del or F2

Look for the boot sequence options and set your DVD drive to the primary boot device. Save & Exit.

[Winkerbie]

I have set it to boot from CD rom before SATA HDD, it does'nt work though, does the boot process check both drives or just the master.

Master Drive : CDRW (D:\)
SLave Drive : DVD-+RW (E:\)

[degsy]

It should check them in order.
Set the DVD to be the primary boot device.

[Winkerbie]

How do you set DVD to Primary.

In (F2) the options are

Boot from Floppy
Boot from SATA Hard Drive
Boot from removable media of CDROM :hmm:
Boot from IDE DRIVE (not avalible)
Boot from USB


So how do I set my Slave DVD to boot, or does it check it aswell as the master

[degsy]

It looks like your BIOS doesn't support it. You will have to swap the jumpers and cables to make your DVD the master.

[Winkerbie]

I did it, and it works, but how come my Bios doesn't support it? I mean is this kind of Bios common.

[degsy]

It depends on the manufacturer. There are different makes of BIOS.

Also, generally only the newer will support Slave booting. I'm surprised it doesn;t seeing as though it supports USB.

[Winkerbie]

My bios was made in 2005 and has the latest driver/firmware