Questions and Answers C-3
Note:
When starting, the system looks for
the operating system files. It looks at the boot
devices in your system in the order that is
specified in the BIOS. If the diskette drive comes
before the hard drive in boot order and you do
not have a diskette in drive A, the system boots
from the hard drive. A diskette without operating
system files in drive A prevents a system boot
and displays the error message, “non-system
disk installed in drive A.”
Why won’t my computer boot from the CD-ROM drive
when I try to reload the operating system from the
NEC OS Restore CD?
Restart your computer and press
F2
when you see the boot
message (such as “Escape to view POST, F2 to enter BIOS
Setup,” or “Press F2 to run SETUP”).
Go to the Boot menu in the BIOS Setup utility and check if
the boot sequence is as follows:
First boot device: FDD (diskette drive)
Second boot device: CD-ROM
Third boot device: HDD (hard drive).
If the boot sequence is not as listed above, you have to
change the values in order to boot from the CD-ROM drive.
See “Boot Menu” in Chapter 3.
I forgot my password. How do I boot?
See “Clearing a Password” in Chapter 3.
