Compaq M300 manual 10Upgrading Your Computer, Bay

5-10Upgrading Your Computer

The computer can start from

■Any bootable hard drive in the computer or diskette in the external diskette drive.

■Any bootable diskette (but not a SuperDisk LS-120 drive diskette) or hard drive in a docking base.

■Any bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM in a docking base.

By default, Phoenix MultiBoot is disabled and the computer selects the startup drive by searching these locations in this sequence:

1.	External diskette drive	3.	Mobile expansion unit diskette drive
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2.	Computer hard drive bay	4.	Mobile expansion unit MultiBay

To enable MultiBoot and change the sequence of the computer drive bay locations that the computer searches during startup:

1.Restart the computer, then press F10 when the blinking cursor appears upper-right on the screen.

■To change the language, press F2.

■For navigation instructions, press F1.

2.Select Advanced⊕Boot Options, then press Enter.

3.Toggle the MultiBoot field to Enable.

4.Toggle the Boot Order fields to the boot sequence you prefer.

5.To save your preferences and exit Boot Options, press F10.

6.To confirm saving your changes close Computer Setup, and restart the computer, select File⊕Save Changes and Exit, then press F10.

When the computer restarts and searches for a startup drive, it considers only the first drive of each type. For example, in the default boot order, the computer will not start from a bootable diskette in the diskette drive bay of the mobile expansion unit if a non-bootable diskette is in the external diskette drive connected to the computer.