I have Lenovo IdeaCentre K430 it has windows 8.1 loaded on to it. I wan't to boot from the DVD drive. I go into Bios and into the Boot priority list and it shows all the different options to boot from. However when I start up the machine and press f12 it shows the boot priority list and it only shows 1 item in the list, the main hard drive. Now let me tell you what I have tired. First I tried changing the boot priority list order, that didn't change anything. I then excluded everything from the list except for the DVD drive and that gave me no options to boot from. I tried disconnecting the Hard drive power so it wouldn't be seen and that still didn't change anything. I can't even get it to see a USB connection either it will only see the hard drive. I also made sure it did'nt have rapid or speed boot enabled. I have checked every option I could find in Bios and I still can't get it to show anything else but the harddrive.
Priority Boot only shows Main Hard drive
- Thread starter mweber4
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- Sep 7, 2013
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1) At boot time, immediately press and hold F12 until the Boot Device Menu appears. CD/DVD drive should be in that menu.
2) Now make sure the disc you want to boot from is in the CD/DVD drive.
3) Us up/down arrow keys to highlight the required boot device (eg model name of CD/DVD drive).
4) Press <Enter> key
5) Laptop should now boot from the CD/DVD disc.
2) Now make sure the disc you want to boot from is in the CD/DVD drive.
3) Us up/down arrow keys to highlight the required boot device (eg model name of CD/DVD drive).
4) Press <Enter> key
5) Laptop should now boot from the CD/DVD disc.
Any other ideas?I didn't find a solution to why my system will only show the one hard drive and not anything else. However I did find a solution to my problem of being able to boot to a dvd instead so I could run a partition manager program to modify the hard drive. I just pulled the hard drive from the machine it was in and placed it into another machine and booted to the DVD and ran my partition manager software.
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