First Boot Hard Drive not CD

[helmsman]

Dell Inspiration 530
Running XP Pro.
How do I make the CD the first boot, it's the hard drive now.
Step by step PLEASE.
TIA

 

[John John (MVP)]

Inspiration 530? Do you mean Inspiron 530?

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/inspd530/en/OM/appendix.htm#wp1057460

System Setup > Boot Device Configuration

John

 

[helmsman]

Inspiration 530? Do you mean Inspiron 530?

Yes 3 cats and a dog, it gets confusing sometimes
Thanks.

 

[Daniel (MVP Window Desktop Experience)]

Once you seen POST (power on self test) Hit del key or some is either F1 or
F2 to go into bios, and once in bios, set first bootable device as CD rom,
remember to save and exit

 

[David B.]

If you only occasionally need to boot from CD, hit the F12 key when it says
to on the screen, you will get the option to select the boot device.

 

[helmsman]

Inspiration 530? Do you mean Inspiron 530?

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/inspd530/en/OM/appendix.htm#wp1057460

System Setup > Boot Device Configuration

John

All set, for the life of me I can't figure out why it defaulted to
boot from the hard drive first, if nothing is in the CD it will
default to the hard drive anyway. If all is not well you need to put a
disk in to fix it. (if you don't know what you are doing) like me.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

All set, for the life of me I can't figure out why it defaulted to
boot from the hard drive first, if nothing is in the CD it will
default to the hard drive anyway. If all is not well you need to put a
disk in to fix it. (if you don't know what you are doing) like me.

And if somebody places an operating system bootable CD in, the uninitiated
might well start to overwrite the installation..


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