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April 19th, 2006 13:00

to boot from cdrom keep tapping F12 at startup and the one-off booting menu should pop up from which you choose cdrom then press the enter key.

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April 19th, 2006 14:00

Thanks for your help.
I'm afraid I am unclear whether I should follow your instructions now, in order to set up 'enabling booting from CDRom' [which would then be permenently set], or whether  I would only use those instructions after a crash and I am trying to restore  my entire computer via my backup program's emergency CDRom bootable disc I have made.
Please set a novice computer user straight.
Thanks.
Kimjor

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April 19th, 2006 18:00

the method I've suggest leaves you booting order in bios unchanged.

changing the booting order in bios can be altered after you make any changes.

usually the backup program only needs to boot from the emergency disk once in order to load the program.

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April 22nd, 2006 01:00

But, since there is mostly only a CD rom drive on laptops nowadays, Like he just said , wouldn't be on already?

 

I would understand if your laptop had a floppy drive in its modular bay ( like the one I have now, an old P1 150 from IBM), Like I do have , even then , The CD was the primary boot drive in the sequence.

 

 

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