Can't change the boot order

[BarracudaUAK]

And I'm back!
In my boards Bios, Across the top, there are "tabs", one is labeled "Bios Features"

Where I pick which "type" of drive to boot first.


Under that there are several options, including

"Hard Drive BBS Prioirities"
"CD-Rom Drive BBS Priorities"

Which is were I set the boot order for hard drives and CD/DVD drives.


Anything like that?

I had to search each and every menu to find it the first time, but it was there.


Also, if you are just installing Linux on the 2nd HDD, then Linux will "tweak" the Master Boot Record to look at GRUB, which will then give you the option to boot the OS of your choice.

Barracuda

[propbeanie]

... and there should be a keypress, like F2 or Del takes you to the BIOS (or in this case UEFI), while F10 or F12 might take you to a boot choice screen. I had an HP years ago that used F11, while the last one I had used F12. The boys' Dell boxes use F10... From that, you can choose Hard Drive or Optical Drive or USB Stick (if one is inserted - and dependent upon the UEFI).

[Reece]

F2 gets me to the BIOS, F10 or F12 seems to do nothing.
@ Barracuda, The only sub menu's are Main, Advanced, Boot, Security and Save & Exit.
I disabled Fast Boot, Secure Boot Menu, and enabled Launch CSM, this changed the Boot Menu removing the Fast Boot option and added Launch PXE OpROM policy which is disabled.
I now have 2 Boot Options #1 [Windows Boot Manager] and #2 [Pioneer BD-ROM]. I can now boot from either but have to select/change manually in the bios, if I select BD-ROM it will only boot from that. Bit of a pain but better than not.
Not sure where to go from here, my old PC has XP Pro and always used Ghost 2003 but doesn't work with this PC, it sees the 2 HDD's but for the destination it only offers A, even though there is no A.
I have Norton Ghost 12.0 but never used it, seems overly complicated. I would like to backup Windows before installing Linux and dual boot, any ideas in this area would also be appreciated.

[Reece]

Anyone tried Paragon Backup & Recovery?

[propbeanie]

I haven't tried Paragon, but Windows should have a backup thingie in there somewhere... I'm on Win7 though, and I do know that when we did my boy's Win10 machine, I was lost for the longest time, and couldn't find it, but it's in there somewhere. You could try typing "Backup" in that "Search" thingie in the lower left... ??

[Reece]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[Fubar2Niner]

I use Acronis here mate, have done for ages not had a problem yet.

Good luck

[Rockin Robbins]

Paragon and Acronis are equally good image backup programs. Acronis has gone in heavy for cloud stuff lately and that has severely hurt their user friendliness. A free program as good as those two is Veeam Endpoint Backup. It's easier to use and just as good as anything you can buy.