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| Most laptops look to see if there is a floppy disk within the A: drive. If there is, the laptop will try to boot from the floppy. Of course, if the floppy disk does not contain bootable system files you'll get an error message. You can use the BIOS to change the boot order of drives to boot from. |
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| Within the BIOS locate the boot options and change the boot order to boot from the C: drive first rather than the A: drive. |
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| You can also allow the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM. This can be useful if you are installing operating systems on different laptops or for troubleshooting resources. To turn this feature on or off find the entry in your BIOS and able or disable the feature. |
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| If you'd prefer, you can usually tell the BIOS to never boot from the floppy or the CD-ROM drive, but to only boot from the C:\ partition or hard disk. This option saves headaches if you leave floppy disks and CDs in their respective drives. What happens though in the future when you really do need to boot from the floppy disk? You'll have to access the BIOS again and change the setting to turn the option back on. |
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