How To Boot From External Cd Drive?

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Answer #1: Posted by RathishC on July 17th, 2013 7:12 PM

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Hi Gunasekharan,

Please follow the step below to boot the disk from External Cd drive:

Step 1

To be able to boot from a USB CD Drive (or any external peripheral using the USB port for that matter) it is important that your motherboard has built-in support for this function. To check for the availability of this feature, reboot the machine.

Step 2

During the booting process press F1/F2 to enter the BIOS settings. In the BIOS settings go to the section for boot devices. Set the primary boot device as the USB port or other external device.

Step 3

Usually hardware that supports booting from USB-based devices can detect the attached device on the USB port during boot up. So under the boot settings it should be able to detect that a CD or DVD drive is connected to the USB port. Select this option and make sure to save the changes in the BIOS settings. The machine will automatically reboot.

Step 4

Make sure that the external device is turned on (if applicable) and the cable is firmly connected to the computer and the external device.

Step 5

Make sure to load a bootable CD media in the external drive to allow for a successful booting from the USB CD Drive.

You can try the steps and it should fix the issue.

Please respond for further assistance.

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Rathish C
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