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Boot from CD

Postby jksteinhauer » Tue 18 Mar, 2003 6:27 pm

Needing to run a diagnostic with Norton Systemworks - need to boot from CD, not floppy - how do I do so?
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Postby Mandrake » Tue 18 Mar, 2003 6:50 pm

Go into the Bios and set it to boot from CDROM, A, C or A, CDROM, C or similar :wink:
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Postby Gregor » Wed 19 Mar, 2003 2:21 am

As Mandrake said, in BIOS the first booting device should be set to CD ROM or drive letter of CD ROM.
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