Re: New workstations - modern image backups

Yes, hard drive is last. Sorry for the bad wording. Normally, it'll look
for devices in the USB ports, find their either aren't any or the ones that
exist aren't running boot loaders, repeat that with any optical drives,
then go on to the hard drive. It's fast enough that it may only add a
second or so to the daily boot time.

A USB (or DVD) has to be explicitly set up as a boot device for the PC to
attempt to look for an OS on it. Generally, they aren't set up that way
with the exception of utility drives/discs like the backup/restore software
or some utility discs. The USB drive you back up to more than likely is
not set as a boot device or, if it is, then you've plugged it in for the
explicit purpose of doing a backup or restore.

A regular USB drive or data DVD aren't going to contain anything for the PC
to boot from so the PC just moves on to the next possible boot device.

(You can place the hard drive first, but then it'll never look at the DVD
or USB unless the HD is failing, which means it may be too late for
whatever utility you wanted to boot & run.)


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:05 AM, John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Second, set the BIOS to boot off USB then DVD then hard drive second and
leave it. Unless you suspect users will attempt to boot off their own
media this makes it a set & forget thing.

Do you mean USB, then DVD, then hard drive /third/?

And if I set USB first, won't it boot from the external USB drive I want to
back up to?

Thanks.




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