Friday, January 11, 2013

BIOS Boot Menu Bootable Devices

Following are the BIOS boot menu bootable devices typically found and their explanations

Bootable DeviceExplanation
USB FDCUSB Floppy Disk Controller: An external USB floppy drive
USB KEYAn external USB Flash drive that appears as a "Removable Disk". In other words, any external USB device that appears as a "Removable Disk"
USB HDDUSB Hard Disk Drive: An external USB hard disk. Could be either an external USB flash drive that appears as a "Local Disk" or "Fixed Disk" or an external USB hard drive. In other words, any external USB device that appears as a "Local Disk" or "Fixed Disk"
USB CDROMAn external USB CD ROM
CDROMAn internal CD ROM
IDE X
or
HDD		An internal Hard Disk Drive X. Where X is the number representing the order of hard disk
NetworkBoot via network, i.e. via ethernet



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