Wednesday, August 8, 2012

How to boot from a CD/DVD

Most of the people these days know hot to boot from a CD or DVD. But if you don't then this post will help you how to do it. So the required things are obviously a bootable CD and a computer to boot. And the steps are listed below.

Step 1: Insert the bootable CD/DVD in your computer. And then restart it.

Step 2: Most of the computer these days are configured in such a way that once you insert the bootable CD/DVD and restart the computer, a message will automatically pops up saying "press any key to boot from CD/DVD".

Step 3: If the message dosent pops and goes direstly in login screen then wait and restart again. This time when the computer is about start press F2 or DEL or F12 according to computer.(Most of the desktop needs to pressed del key while the laptops depend on the company they are made from. But usually its either F  or del or F12)


Step 4: Now pressing these keys in the beginning will brings you to the BIOS settings window where you can configure how a computer boots.


Step 5: Now go to Boot option and select the 1st boot priority to CD/DVD ROM. Hit F10. A message pops up saying save changes and exit. Hit on yes option and the computer will save the configuration and restarts again.

And once the computer starts again this time the message is sure to come in your screen. Then press any key and it will take you to whats inside that CD/DVD and you can do your stuffs.

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