Questions on Boot Options in XPS 15

Question

I have a standard internal HDD and a secondary HDD in the optical disk drive bay. The BIOS reports them as HDD (internal) and ODD (drive bay). What does ODD mean? Now in the Boot section the terms are: •Hard Drive - shows my internal HDD. My secondary HDD does not appear here. •CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive - is the optical drive. BUT as my secondary HDD is in the optical drive bay will this boot the secondary HDD? •USB Storage Device - assume this refers to the USB ports •Removable Drive - what is this? What boots from this? •eSATA - assume it boots when an eSATA drive when attached   Finally. I know you can move the priority of boot options up and down BUT can you disable options? Eg. if you want to force a boot from a second drive - how can you disable the internal drive? (which you can do on many BIOSes) Thx for any answers Tom

ejn63 · Accepted Answer

Removeable drive refers to the flash card reader (SD, MMC, etc.).

ejn63 · Answer

ODD is optical disc drive bay.  Most of these adapters that allow you to install a hard drive do not support booting from the drive mounted in the adapter -- check with the manufacturer of the adapter for details.

TunnylaneTom · Answer

Thx ejn63 - Ill check bootablity. Do you know what the other BIOS boot options refer to esp the one entitled 'Removable Drive'?

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