Boot Ordering Doesn't Work

Catlover-ln · ‎03-28-2017

I need to boot from a DVD. I was able to go to the BIOS and change it so DVD is the first boot option. However, when I restart my computer, it still boots from the hard drive. I can't figure out why. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've tried at least 15 times to get it to boot from the DVD. I've gone into the BIOS and changed it at least 3-4 times, and yes, I did save my changes.

TIA.

erico · ‎03-28-2017

In order for your PC to boot from the optical disk there must be a bootable disk in the drive.

Otherwise, it moves on the the next bootable item in in the list.

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Catlover-ln · ‎03-28-2017

@erico wrote:
In order for your PC to boot from the optical disk there must be a bootable disk in the drive.

Otherwise, it moves on the the next bootable item in in the list.

Thanks for your reply, erico. I knew that & thought I had a bootable disk in the DVD drive. At least the DBAN site states that it makes the disk bootable when you install DBAN. But I'll have to admit I don't see anything that looks like a bootable file on the disk; I didn't really pay attention before. I guess I'll have to find out how to make it bootable. Do you have any suggestions for that?

I'm beginning to wonder if I need DBAN to wipe my external USB drive that I used for backups before I donate it. I wiped the drive with ccleaner but it left a file called "System Volume Information." I'm afraid someone could use that to get some of my data, so that's why I decided to use DBAN.

WAWood · ‎03-28-2017

@Catlover-ln

Interesting that you mention DBAN -- not many folks know about this outside the Linux world.

I have used it myself but I generally do NOT recommend it because it does EXACTLY what you tell it to do! So, if you get your disk IDs confused, you just wiped out a disk -- with no way to recover it.

If you're confortable using that -- fine -- but you can also download and use this free version of a well-known partitioning tool: http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

It has an option Wipe that effectively does the same thing.

Good Luck

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erico · ‎03-29-2017

You are correct in what you suspected about the system volume information folder. Check out the article at the link.

It has lots of data about what you have done on the internet relative to the PC you created it with.

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