Setting the Booting Sequence

The booting sequence determines the order in which the computer checks the drives when it looks for the operating system.

For example, if you select A, c, each time you turn on the computer it first checks drive A (the external diskette drive) for an operating system diskette and loads the operating system from that diskette. If drive A does not contain an operating system diskette, the computer loads the operating system from drive C. This is the default setting because you may sometimes want to boot the computer from a system diskette in drive A.

If you select C, A, the computer loads the operating system from drive C. If it doesn’t find the operating system on drive C, it checks the diskette in drive A. This setting allows the computer to load the operating system a little faster.

Setting the Virus Warning

Your computer contains a built-in virus warning function to protect your data should a software virus come in contact with your system.

If the virus warning option is enabled, the system displays a virus warning message when it detects a program attempting to write to the boot sector on either a diskette or the hard disk drive. You must respond to a prompt either to allow a legitimate program (such as the MS-DOS FORMAT command) to write to the boot sector or to deny access to a program that shouldn‘t be writing to the boot sector.

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